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Copy is a command that permits to create a branch

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Step by step

With tortoise:

• Checkout the trunk (It can be done from another branch)
• Right click on the folder and select “Branch/Tag…

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• Enter the path to your new branch, a commit text and check the checkbox if you want to switch your working copy. command.

• Clicking the OK button will perform a svn copy

svn copy 
       svn+ssh://host.example.com/repos/project/trunk \
       svn+ssh://host.example.com/repos/project/branches/NAME_OF_BRANCH \
      -m "My commit message"

• And will also switch

• You can verify the switch in the properties of the file