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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>svn switch</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css" type="text/css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.73.2" /><link rel="start" href="index.html" title="Version Control with Subversion" /><link rel="up" href="svn.ref.svn.html#svn.ref.svn.c" title="svn Subcommands" /><link rel="prev" href="svn.ref.svn.c.status.html" title="svn status" /><link rel="next" href="svn.ref.svn.c.unlock.html" title="svn unlock" /></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">svn switch</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="svn.ref.svn.c.status.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center"><span class="command"><strong>svn</strong></span> Subcommands</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="svn.ref.svn.c.unlock.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="refentry" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="svn.ref.svn.c.switch"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><a id="id421216" class="indexterm"></a><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>svn switch — Update working copy to a different URL.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id421241"></a><h2>Synopsis</h2><pre class="programlisting">svn switch URL[@PEGREV] [PATH]</pre><pre class="programlisting">switch --relocate FROM TO [PATH...]</pre></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id421260"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>The first variant of this subcommand (without the
<code class="option">--relocate</code> option) updates your working
copy to point to 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. If specified,
<em class="replaceable"><code>PEGREV</code></em> determines in which
revision the target is first looked up. See <a class="xref" href="svn.branchmerge.switchwc.html" title="Traversing Branches">the section called “Traversing Branches”</a> for an in-depth look
at switching.</p><p>
The <code class="option">--relocate</code> option causes <span class="command"><strong>svn
switch</strong></span> to do something different: it updates
your working copy to point to <span class="emphasis"><em>the
same</em></span> repository directory, only at a different
URL (typically because an administrator has moved the
repository to another server, or to another URL on the
same server).</p><p>If <code class="option">--force</code> is used, unversioned
obstructing paths in the working copy do not automatically
cause a failure if the switch attempts to add the same
path. If the obstructing path is the same type (file or
directory) as the corresponding path in the repository it
becomes versioned but its contents are left untouched in
the working copy. This means that an obstructing
directory's unversioned children may also obstruct and
become versioned. For files, any content differences
between the obstruction and the repository are treated
like a local modification to the working copy. All
properties from the repository are applied to the
obstructing path.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id421320"></a><h2>Alternate Names</h2><p>sw</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id421330"></a><h2>Changes</h2><p>Working copy</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id421340"></a><h2>Accesses Repository</h2><p>Yes</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id421350"></a><h2>Options</h2><pre class="screen">
--revision (-r) REV
--depth ARG
--ignore-externals
--force
--accept ARG
--quiet (-q)
--diff3-cmd CMD
--relocate FROM TO
--username USER
--password PASS
--no-auth-cache
--non-interactive
--config-dir DIR
</pre></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id421364"></a><h2>Examples</h2><p>If you're currently inside the directory
<code class="filename">vendors</code>, which was branched to
<code class="filename">vendors-with-fix</code>, and you'd like to
switch your working copy to that branch:</p><pre class="screen">
$ 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.
</pre><p>And to switch back, just provide the URL to the
location in the repository from which you originally
checked out your working copy:</p><pre class="screen">
$ 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.
</pre><div class="tip" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Tip</h3><p>You can just switch part of your working copy to a
branch if you don't want to switch your entire working
copy.</p></div><p>Sometimes an administrator might change the
“<span class="quote">base location</span>” of your repository—in
other words, the contents of the repository doesn't
change, but the main URL used to reach the root of the
repository does. For example, the hostname may change,
the URL scheme may change, or any part of the URL which leads to the
repository itself may change. Rather than check out a new working
copy, you can have the <span class="command"><strong>svn switch</strong></span>
command “<span class="quote">rewrite</span>” the beginnings of all the
URLs in your working copy. Use the
<code class="option">--relocate</code> option to do the substitution.
No file contents are changed, nor is the repository
contacted. It's similar to running a Perl script over
your working copy <code class="filename">.svn/</code> directories
which runs <span class="command"><strong>s/OldRoot/NewRoot/</strong></span>.</p><pre class="screen">
$ svn checkout file:///var/svn/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:///var/svn/repos'
$ svn switch --relocate file:///var/svn/repos file:///tmp/newlocation .
$ svn update
At revision 3.
</pre><div class="warning" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Warning</h3><p>Be careful when using the
<code class="option">--relocate</code> option. If you mistype the
argument, you might end up creating nonsensical URLs
within your working copy that render the whole workspace
unusable and tricky to fix. It's also important to
understand exactly when one should or shouldn't use
<code class="option">--relocate</code>. Here's the rule of
thumb:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p>If the working copy needs to reflect a
new directory <span class="emphasis"><em>within</em></span> the
repository, then use just <span class="command"><strong>svn
switch</strong></span>.</p></li><li><p>If the working copy still reflects the
same repository directory, but the location of the
repository itself has changed, then use <span class="command"><strong>svn
switch --relocate</strong></span>.</p></li></ul></div></div></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="svn.ref.svn.c.status.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="svn.ref.svn.html#svn.ref.svn.c">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="svn.ref.svn.c.unlock.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">svn status </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> svn unlock</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
