Re: repeated merges

Timothee Besset <ttimo@idsoftware.com> writes:
> I am adapting a script I wrote to do vendor branches with repeated merges
> in a semi-automated way to svn, so for now I handle the repeated merges
> and revision number housekeeping from my scripts. The problem I've hit is
> on the first merge, where I don't have rev1 to provide in "svn merge
> -rrev1:rev2". I would love to have something that can tell "this branch
> started at rev rev1". Or even give it rev 0 and mean that this means "the
> first time this file appeared".

Well, we don't need to special case rev 0. We could just use a new
revision keyword, "ORIG", analogous to "BASE", "HEAD", etc.

Hmmm, Bill Tutt, is this related to your "[PATCH] Fix for 1003"? That
is, is this a feature that gets easier or more efficient to implement
once your patch is in?

-K

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Received on Mon Nov 25 17:22:14 2002