Subversion: Can I checkout, modify, and then make it a branch?

Question

I did a checkout from my trunk to a local DIR and made lots of local changes there. Now I don\'t want to commit it back to the trunk, but I\'d rather make a branch from this loc

Answer 1

According to its command line help svn copy can copy from a directory to a repository URL. So you should be able to copy your working copy to the branch, e.g.:

svn copy working_directory url_to_branch