Svn switch from trunk to branch

• Short version of (correct) tzaman answer will be (for fresh SVN)

  svn switch ^/branches/v1p2p3
  

• --relocate switch is deprecated anyway, when it needed you'll have to use svn relocate command

• Instead of creating snapshot-branch (ReadOnly) you can use tags (conventional RO labels for history)

On Windows, the caret character (^) must be escaped:

svn switch ^^/branches/v1p2p3

In my case, I wanted to check out a new branch that has cut recently but it's it big in size and I want to save time and internet bandwidth, as I'm in a slow metered network

so I copped the previous branch that I already checked in

I went to the working directory, and from svn info, I can see it's on the previous branch I did the following command (you can find this command from svn switch --help)

svn switch ^/branches/newBranchName

go check svn info again you can see it is becoming the newBranchName go ahead and svn up

and this how I got the new branch easily, quickly with minimum data transmitting over the internet

hope sharing my case helps and speeds up your work

You don't need to --relocate since the branch is within the same repository URL. Just do:

svn switch https://www.example.com/svn/branches/v1p2p3