Creating branch in AnkhSVN adds entire repository to branch instead of single project

Question

I have a single Subversion repository containing all my Visual Studio projects. The repository is organized as follows:

repository/
    branches/
        project1_branch/
        ...
    tags/
        project1_tag/
        ...
    trunk/
        project1/
        project2/
        ...

When I right-click on a particular solution I have open in Visual Studio 2010 and choose Subversion --> Branch Solution the default From Folder/URL is the trunk directory.

How can I create a branch of just the specific solution/project I am working on?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Answer 1

I wonder if AnkhSVN is assuming a slightly different repository folder structure. If I'm not mistaken, the "recommended" structure suggests that a trunk folder represent a given project's stable/current code base, rather than as a folder that aggregates multiple project's trunks. That is, I would expect to see a structure more like:

repository/    
    project1/
        branches/
        tags/
        trunk/
    project2/
        branches/
        tags/
        trunk/

If you look at it from that perspective, the AnkhSVN behavior of branching from trunk makes a bit more sense - it just sees the subdirectories as part of the structure rooted at "trunk," but doesn't know or expect those are discrete projects' trunks.

I would respectfully suggest building a top-level project folder from the repository root for a "test" project, organized as illustrated above, then exercise it through AnkhSVN, and see if perhaps a going-forward change to your repository structure might serve you best over the long term.