This is a short summary of the svn commands used to manage a release in svn. Merge changes from trunk to release branch * in release branch checkout dir - Merge a single commit r12345 svn merge ^/trunk -c 12345 - Merge multiple commits from r12345 to r12350 svn merge ^/trunk -r12344:r12350 ^ Not a typo - Merge a single file from r12345 svn merge ^trunk/myfile.ext myfile.ext -c 12345 - Revert a single commit r12345 svn merge ^/trunk -c -12345 - For problem "svn: E195020: Cannot merge into mixed-revision working copy" svn update - In nothing happens on merge commands (on clean tree only!) svn revert . Copy a file from trunk to release branch - Copy myfile.ext to release branch 1.2 svn copy ^/trunk/myfile.ext ^/branches/1.2/myfile.ext Create a release branch - Create release branch 1.2 from trunk svn copy ^/trunk ^/branches/1.2 Tag a release - Tag 1.2.1 from 1.2 branch svn copy ^/branches/1.2 ^/tags/MPlayer-1.2.1