Svn switch from trunk to branch

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I am in the root folder of an SVN-hosted project s trunk and am exploring setting up two branches    One branch will be a  snapshot  of the project at the current  stable  revision  and a second branch will be one I ll work on to apply some new code  test  and then upgrade the trunk to a new version    My goal is to keep the snapshot as insurance and a quick way to get an older  stable version of our project  The second branch  once we apply fresh code and the tests pass  will be merged back into the trunk  which we offer to the public   To set up the snapshot  I copied our trunk to a branch called v1p2p3     svn cp https   www example com svn trunk             https   www example com svn branches v1p2p3            -m  Branching from root trunk to v1p2p3 at r1114    So far  so good   Committed revision 1115    What I would like to do is switch my local repository copy to this branch  to make sure that things worked  but I get an error message     svn switch --relocate https   www example com svn trunk                           https   www example com svn branches v1p2p3   The error message is   svn  E155024  Invalid relocation destination                  https   www example com svn branches v1p2p3                  does not point to target    What am I doing wrong    If this doesn t work  I suspect I can t get to starting on the more ambitious second branch  I m looking for a way to do this that won t damage the existing project layout  Thanks for your advice  and apologies if this is a dumb question

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Short version of  correct  tzaman answer will be  for fresh SVN   svn switch   branches v1p2p3  --relocate switch is deprecated anyway  when it needed you ll have to use svn relocate command Instead of creating snapshot-branch  ReadOnly  you can use tags  conventional RO labels for history    On Windows  the caret character     must be escaped   svn switch    branches v1p2p3

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You don t need to --relocate since the branch is within the same repository URL  Just do   svn switch https   www example com svn branches v1p2p3

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In my case  I wanted to check out a new branch that has cut recently but it s it big in size and I want to save time and internet bandwidth  as I m in a slow metered network   so I copped the previous branch that I already checked in   I went to the working directory  and from svn info  I can see it s on the previous branch I did the following command  you can find this command from svn switch --help   svn switch   branches newBranchName   go check svn info again you can see it is becoming the newBranchName go ahead and svn up  and this how I got the new branch easily  quickly with minimum data transmitting over the internet   hope sharing my case helps and speeds up your work

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