How to properly create an SVN tag from trunk?

Question

I am creating my first project in Subversion. So far I have

 branches
 tags
 trunk

I think I immediately need to make branches singular and start over. Update branches is the norm.

I have been doing work in trunk and moving the contents to tags as follows.

mkdir tags/1.0
cp -rf trunk/* tags/1.0
svn add tags/1.0
svn commit -m " create a first tagged version"

My gut tells me this is totally wrong, and I should maintain some relationship between the files using svn copy. The files I create in this way will have no relationship to each other, and I am sure I will miss out on Subversion features. Am I correct?

Should I use svn copy for the individual files?

mkdir tags/1.0
svn add tags/1.0
svn copy trunk/file1 tags/1.0
svn copy trunk/file2 tags/1.0
svn copy trunk/file3 tags/1.0
svn commit -m " create a first tagged version"

Should I use svn copy on the entire directory?

svn copy cp -rf trunk tags/1.0
svn commit -m " create a first tagged version"

Answer 1

Use:

svn copy http://svn.example.com/project/trunk \
      http://svn.example.com/project/tags/1.0 -m "Release 1.0"

Shorthand:

cd /path/to/project
svn copy ^/trunk ^/tags/1.0 -m "Release 1.0"