Creating branches

We create a branch by simply copying the project to a subdirectory of branches.

$ svn copy https://localhost/svn/repo1/helloworld/trunk \
        https://localhost/svn/repo1/helloworld/branches/br-0.8

This is an ordinary invocation of svn copy command and branches directory has no special meaning for Subversion - it is the users' convention that it is going to store their branches.