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Migration of a branch from one structure to another

Aryan

TS 6.7.1 Windows

Greetings!

We have a requirement where we have have to change our existing branching structure to incorporate changes in design and business requirements.

Let me explain that with an example.Lets say I had a branch structure like the one below:
/a/b/c

It needs to change to:
/a/b//c

Now I need to move the content from the /a/b/c to /a/b//c maintaining the version history.

iwmigrate would not work for me as I cannot change the branching structure using that.

Copy to area is use less since /a/b/c would be deleted after the new structure is established (Versions create using "copy to" are removed if the source branch is removed).

Is there a decent OOTB way of doing this without doing a lot of customized coding? The requirement is very clear. In short I want to move a branch from one location to another. And since that is not possible, i want to create a new branch and move all the content from the old branch there. The trick is all the versions have also got to be copied.

Is that possible?

Please pardon if this question is repeated.

Thanks.

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Adam Stoller

TS 6.7.1 Windows

Greetings!

We have a requirement where we have have to change our existing branching structure to incorporate changes in design and business requirements.

Let me explain that with an example.Lets say I had a branch structure like the one below:
/a/b/c

It needs to change to:
/a/b/<new branch>/c

Now I need to move the content from the /a/b/c to /a/b/<new branch>/c maintaining the version history.

iwmigrate would not work for me as I cannot change the branching structure using that.

Copy to area is use less since /a/b/c would be deleted after the new structure is established (Versions create using "copy to" are removed if the source branch is removed).

Is there a decent OOTB way of doing this without doing a lot of customized coding? The requirement is very clear. In short I want to move a branch from one location to another. And since that is not possible, i want to create a new branch and move all the content from the old branch there. The trick is all the versions have also got to be copied.

Is that possible?

Please pardon if this question is repeated.

Thanks.

I haven't tried this recently - and don't remember if it works (and don't have my TS running right now) - but .... try this:

Aryan

Thanks for the quick reply but in /a/b/c and /a/b/newbranch/c all are branches and I wish to change the hierarchy of "c" branch from /b to /newbranch maintaining all the file versions intact.

The options you mentioned in your reply dont work.

Adam Stoller

Thanks for the quick reply but in /a/b/c and /a/b/newbranch/c all are branches and I wish to change the hierarchy of "c" branch from /b to /newbranch maintaining all the file versions intact.

The options you mentioned in your reply dont work.

Okay - I said I wasn't sure / didn't remember.
Apparently File > Move is not available and File > Rename will not accept path-separators in the target string.

Maybe this became (or should become if it wasn't filed before) a Feature Request - in which case you should contact Support to get it registered as one - because I don't think there's any [reasonable] way to do what you want right now.