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

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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?

Can I just copy the trunk to a branch, and then cd DIR and svn switch to the branch?

UPDATE: Thanks for the answers, it worked! To summarize the steps:

  • cd DIR
  • svn copy . new-branch-URL
  • svn switch new-branch-URL .

(note the dots)

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