Switch copy working directory without updating

Question

Scenario: The repository structure was changed from / trunk / to / projectName / trunk /, and the local copy is outdated and has many changes.

Question: How to update the path to the working copy directory without updating the files.

Typically, a solution to change the directory in the same repository will use the svn switch command. The problem is that it performs the update after execution, the working copy is outdated and has many local changes that will contradict the current version.

What I'm looking for is the same behavior of the --relocate switch, which updates the path but does not update the files. Thus, I can restore the ability to check the statuses and differences for each file separately while maintaining the functionality of the local copy (this is my main problem).

The --help switch provides several arguments for resolving conflicts, but I could not find anything that could completely stop the update.

Any ideas? Many thanks.

Answer 1

The solution for this particular case was simpler than I thought.

svn switch by default updates the latest revision in the repository, indicating the BASE version (last revision obtained from the repository) of the working copy has left most of the files intact.

I got the BASE version of my working copy (294) by issuing the svn info .

Then, just issuing the switch command with the BASE version updated the repository path, leaving most of the files intact.

svn switch -r 294 /projectName/trunk/