svn switch — Update working copy to a different URL.
This subcommand updates your working copy to mirror a new URL—usually a URL which shares a common ancestor with your working copy, although not necessarily. This is the Subversion way to move a working copy to a new branch. See the section called “Switching a Working Copy” for an in-depth look at switching.
--revision (-r) REV --non-recursive (-N) --quiet (-q) --diff3-cmd CMD --relocate --username USER --password PASS --no-auth-cache --non-interactive --config-dir DIR
If you're currently inside the directory vendors which was branched to vendors-with-fix and you'd like to switch your working copy to that branch:
$ svn switch http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/branches/vendors-with-fix . U myproj/foo.txt U myproj/bar.txt U myproj/baz.c U myproj/qux.c Updated to revision 31.
And to switch back, just provide the URL to the location in the repository from which you originally checked out your working copy:
$ svn switch http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/trunk/vendors . U myproj/foo.txt U myproj/bar.txt U myproj/baz.c U myproj/qux.c Updated to revision 31.
You can just switch part of your working copy to a branch if you don't want to switch your entire working copy.
If the location of your repository changes and you have an existing working copy that you'd like to continue to use, you can use svn switch --relocate to change your working copy from one URL to another:
$ svn checkout file:///tmp/repos test A test/a A test/b … $ mv repos newlocation $ cd test/ $ svn update svn: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL svn: Unable to open repository 'file:///tmp/repos' $ svn switch --relocate file:///tmp/repos file:///tmp/newlocation . $ svn update At revision 3.