svn switch (was: New branch: ia64-improvements-branch)

[Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>]

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Osku Salerma wrote:
> Not sure what you mean by "have the branches locally" (SVK?), but a
> plain rename of a branch doesn't force new check-outs, people can use
> svn switch to point their working copies at the new branch name.

As far as I can experienced, svn switch does have a major drawback:
you'll get all those subtrees that you had "disabled" using the

  svn switch svn+ssh://gerald@gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/emptydir subdirname

trick.

Dan, is there a way to avoid that?

Gerald