title: Subversion: Can I checkout, modify, and then make it a branch?
body: <p>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 local version. Is that possible?</p>
  
  <p>Can I just copy the trunk to a branch, and then <code>cd DIR</code> and <code>svn switch</code> to the branch?</p>
  
  <p><strong>UPDATE</strong>: Thanks for the answers, it worked! To summarize the steps:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><code>cd DIR</code></li>
  <li><code>svn copy . new-branch-URL</code></li>
  <li><code>svn switch new-branch-URL .</code></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>(note the dots)</p>