svn: replace trunk with branch

Question

What is the best way to make one of the branches of a subversion repository the new trunk?

There has been a major rewrite for the entire system: t

Answer 1

It is a really weird/unusual configuration in SVN, even I think it is far from being a "good practice" at all, anyway, I guess you could do something like:

• Checkout all the sourcetree (svn co therootsourcetree)
• Remove the trunk (svn rm trunk)
• Copy the branch to the trunk (svn cp branches/thebranch /trunk)
• Remove the branch (svn rm branches/thebranch)
• Commit the changes

Good luck