create an empty branch

Question

Hello,

Subversion 1.6 
Ubuntu 10.4

I have a project with the following repository layout.

proj/trunk
proj/branches/new_feature1/
proj/branches/new_feature2/
proj/tags

However, I would like to create a small test app, that isn't a new feature. Just just testing a small aspect of the project. I would like to create this test_app on a new branch. However, I don't want to have to copy from trunk to branch. I just want to create a new empty branch so that I can develop this test_app.

Is there any way to do this?

Many thanks for any suggestions,

Answer 1

One way would be to check out your branches, add a new empty branch, svn add the new branch then commit. You could probably do the same from the command line directly into the repo.

Answer 2

You can use svn mkdir to create the directory, and then use svn co to check it out:

svn mkdir http://path/to/svn/repository/branches/experimental_project
svn co http://path/to/svn/repository/branches/experimental_project project