Using tortoiseSVN, how do you tag the code?

Question

Using TortoiseSVN, how do you tag the code?

Is the process to branch exactly the same?

I know you have to just copy the code to the /tag/ folder, but how?

i.e. I want to copy revision # to a tag#.

Will it affect the /trunk/ at all?

Answer 1

The answers here were missing some key information for getting started with SVN and braches.

Step 1: You need to make sure you have a suitable branches/tags dir. e.g. if your project has this structure:

url/myproj/trunk/...

you also need:

url/myproj/tags/
url/myproj/branches/

To do this, don't "add" the directories and commit them, or tortoise will give you an error. Instead use the tortoise svn repo-browser, go to myproj then right click and "add Folder".

Step 2: Right click on your trunk folder, select "tortoise SVN" then "branch/tag". The copy branch/tag dialogue now pops up.

Step 3: Set the "to Path" to "/myproj/tags/myversion" where myversion is usually something like "1.0". Select "Head revision in the repository" and make sure "switch working to new branch/tag" is not checked. Hit OK.

Step 4: Unfortunately, next time you do an update, it will pull down the branches and tags as files. This means your HD will get filled with every file from every branch and version created. One solution is to only checkout each individual trunk dir, which is not always convenient (as you have to manually update 30 trunk dirs if you have one repo with 30 projects).

Personally, having used CVS, SCCS, PVCS, VSS & Rational for 30 years, I find SVN much harder to work with.