Merge New Folders from Trunk into an existing Branch using TortoiseSVN

Question

What are the steps to merge/add a new folder to a branch from the trunk? For example, if I have the following branch structure:

branches\new_branch\folder_A branches\new_branch\folder_B branches\new_branch\folder_C

And wish to add a few folders that had not been merged/added to the branch folder but do exist in the trunk, how do I do that with TortoiseSVN? e.g.

trunk\folder_D

And end up adding this folder to new_branch:

branches\new_branch\folder_D

I only want to add this specific folder as opposed to bunch of other new ones.

Answer 1

This may not be answer to your question, but this looks like XYProblem. What do you really want to do? I'm asking, because I'm working for years with svn and I never have to merge only single folder from trunk to branch.

Of course if you really want to do this, you should read an answer to this question: How are the sub folder's mergeinfo used when merging at top folder level? Remember that this is not much better than just copy-paste your folder with mergeinfo in subdirectory that you may never use.