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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>Branches and Tags</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.forcvs.html" title="Appendix B. Subversion for CVS Users" /><link rel="prev" href="svn.forcvs.status-vs-update.html" title="Distinction Between Status and Update" /><link rel="next" href="svn.forcvs.properties.html" title="Metadata Properties" /></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Branches and Tags</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="svn.forcvs.status-vs-update.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Appendix B. Subversion for CVS Users</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="svn.forcvs.properties.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="sect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="svn.forcvs.branches-and-tags"></a>Branches and Tags</h2></div></div></div><p>Subversion doesn't distinguish between filesystem space and
“<span class="quote">branch</span>” space; branches and tags are ordinary
directories within the filesystem. This is probably the single
biggest mental hurdle a CVS user will need to climb. Read all
about it in <a class="xref" href="svn.branchmerge.html" title="Chapter 4. Branching and Merging">Chapter 4, <i>Branching and Merging</i></a>.</p><div class="warning" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Warning</h3><p>Since Subversion treats branches and tags as ordinary
directories, always remember to check out the
<code class="literal">trunk</code>
(<code class="literal">http://svn.example.com/repos/calc/trunk/</code>)
of your project, and not the project itself
(<code class="literal">http://svn.example.com/repos/calc/</code>). If
you make the mistake of checking out the project itself,
you'll wind up with a working copy that contains a copy of
your project for every branch and tag you
have.<sup>[<a id="id448119" href="#ftn.id448119" class="footnote">62</a>]</sup></p></div><div class="footnotes"><br /><hr width="100" align="left" /><div class="footnote"><p><sup>[<a id="ftn.id448119" href="#id448119" class="para">62</a>] </sup>That is, providing you don't run out of
disk space before your checkout
finishes.</p></div></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="svn.forcvs.status-vs-update.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="svn.forcvs.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="svn.forcvs.properties.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Distinction Between Status and Update </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Metadata Properties</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
