RE: Question on branching the right way

It sounds like you're having the problem described in this part of the book. Have a look at this and see if it fixes your problem:
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.branchmerge.commonuses.html#svn.branchmerge.commonuses.wholebr

Michael Swanson
Application Developer
Rural Mutual Insurance
Work: 608-828-5615
mswanson@ruralins.com

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From: Sascha Herpers [mailto:herpers@wiso.uni-koeln.de]
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 5:03 AM
To: users@tortoisesvn.tigris.org
Subject: Question on branching the right way

Hello,

I read the introductory passages about branching in the svn-book, but I am still not quite sure, whether branching is the thing I realy want to do. Maybe someone could help me out.

My application exists in two versions: Main-Version and Custom-Version. These differ only in that way, that the custom version has some additional features. Main is in the trunk and Custom is in a branch.

When making changes to Main, I want to be able to apply the changes to the custom version as well. So far I did that with Merge. Unfortunatly, if both version share a commen file, that differs only partly, the custom part of that file gets overwritten by the main version. To workaround that, I checked out both versions into a directory of their own and manually copied the changed files. Then, with the Diff-Function I took care of accepting or reverting changes from the main version for the shared files. *wew* Sounds complicated.

Is there a right way (or at least a better way than the above) to accomplish what I am after?

Thanks,
        Sascha

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