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Friday, September 9, 2016

Learning lesson on branching in SVN



I have worked on different version controls throughout my carrier like - SourceSafe, SVN, TFS, Git, Vault, TFS etc.

Recently we just completed SPRINT cycle of the SITECORE project and I told one of my team member to do the branching in SVN as a best practice.

He just shook his head, “no” and replied me how to do that? 

I was staring my team member and can guess that he was feeling helpless and that’s the reason I am writing this post on branching in SVN. So that’s every developer should know how to do the branching?

What is branching?

In simple term, separating your files from your current working files.

How to do branching?

Go to the folder and right click on empty area and select TortoiseSVN -> Branch/tag... as shown in below image

branching
Branching
Select your branch folder and type folder name in which you want to do branching. Put some comments and choose "Working copy" and click on "Ok" button as shown below


Create Branch Folder
Create Branch Folder

You should receive below successful message on completion of branching operation as shown below

Copy Finished
Copy Finished
 
How to get files from specific branching?

Open folder in which you want to take branch files. Right click on blank area and click on TortoiseSVN -> Repo-browser as


Repo-browser
Repo-browser

Select folder from SVN branch and right click on blank area and choose "Checkout..." as

Checkout
Checkout
Verify repository URL and checkout directory. Depth must be Fully recursive and click on OK button as
 

Verify Checkout
Verify Checkout

You should receive below screen on completion of checkout operation.


Checkout Finished
Checkout Finished

Boom. That’s it for this time guys.

Happy branching.

Please leave your comments or share this tip if it’s useful for you.

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