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Re: Merge from branch to trunk

From: <jiri.pejchal_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:12:50 +0200

Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2008c_at_ryandesign.com> writes:

> On Sep 3, 2008, at 11:03 AM, jiri.pejchal_at_gmail.com wrote:
>
>> we have a trunk with our application and two branches with the same
>> application that has different database backends implemented (some
>> files
>> are different).
>>
>> I would like to keep the trunk and the two branches in sync except
>> for those
>> files that are different (about ten files).
>>
>> Ideally if trunk changes copy the changes to branch1 and branch2,
>> if branch1 changes copy the changes to trunk and branch2,
>> if branch2 changes copy the changes to trunk and branch1.
>> (except those files that will always be different).
>>
>> Is it possible?
>> What is the recommended procedure?
>
> If you want to keep these as separate branches, then you will need to
> periodically merge changes.
>
> Personally I would recommend keeping everything together in one
> consolidated version of the source, with e.g. (if it was written in
> C) #ifdefs around the things that you want to be different between
> the different versions.

It's written in java. Hm, I thougt the branches and merging would be the
right solution.

>> Acording to the subversion book when I do:
>>
>> svn merge --reintegrate http://svn.example.com/repos/calc/branches/
>> my-calc-branch
>> in working copy of the trunk the branch is no longer usable for
>> development.
>
> That doesn't sound correct... What does the book say exactly?

In Subversion 1.5, once a --reintegrate merge is done from branch to
trunk, the branch is no longer usable for further work. It's not able to
correctly absorb new trunk changes, nor can it be properly reintegrated
to trunk again. For this reason, if you want to keep working on your
feature branch, we recommend destroying it and then re-creating it from
the trunk.

Jiri Pejchal

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