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Isn't subversion's take on branching, as well as tagging, actually copying/duplicating whole directory trees?



This is the interface you're presented with, but it's actually a "cheap copy" underneath. So if you write "svn cp https://svn.myserver.com/trunk https://svn.myserver.com/branches/foo" that takes about 1-2 seconds in my experience (no matter how many files, how long the history, or how many binary files you have, etc.).




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