HOWTO Create a SDCC Branch

There are two different ways to make a branch (see Branching and Merging):

• remote copying to the URL
• local copying to the snapshot

Remote copying is simpler but suitable only when branching the complete tree, for example branching trunk to branches/<branch_name>:

svn copy https://sdcc.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/sdcc/trunk https://sdcc.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/sdcc/branches/<branch_name> -m "Creating branch <branch_name>."

In this case branches/<branch_name> will include everything that is in trunk: directories sdcc, sdcc-build, sdcc-cf, sdcc-extra, sdcc-web, ...

Usually we want to create branch of just the sdcc directory: branches/<branch_name>/sdcc. This can be accomplished by copying to the local snapshot:

• create branches directory under the same parent as sdcc and cd into it:

mkdir branches
cd branches

• start the branches checkout:

svn checkout https://sdcc.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/sdcc/branches .

• abort the checkout after some files are checkouted by pressing ^C
• create the <branch_name> directory and add it to the source control:

mkdir <branch_name>
svn add <branch_name>

• svn copy the sdcc directory to branches/<branch_name>/sdcc

svn copy ../sdcc <branch_name>/sdcc

• commit the branch:

svn commit <branch_name>

• voila, the branch is created!

Borut