RE: Reintegrating subbranches

On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 16:05 -0400, Bob Archer wrote:
> > Suppose we have a branch "feature1" of the trunk which implements some
> > feature and subbranch "feature2" which implements another feature
> > depended on the first feature.
> >
> > Suppose development of the first feature is finished and the
> development
> > of the second feature is half-way. Then one would want to reintegrate
> > "feature1" back to the trunk.
> >
> > But "In Subversion 1.5, once a --reintegrate merge is done from branch
> > to trunk, the branch is no longer usable for further
> > work" (from /svnbook-1.5/svn.branchmerge.basicmerging.html).
>
> That is not strictly true. There have been a few threads about this on
> the list recently. If you record the revision of the commit of the merge
> made to the trunk into the branch you can continue using it.

I don't understand you. What you mean saying "record the revision"?

To which branch you refer?

> > So if I would reintegrate "feauture1" will it make impossible properly
> > reintegrate also "feature2"? Or what?
>
> Yes, since this is a separate branch I don't see a problem here. But,
> I'm not 100% sure what the implications are. If you merge in from trunk
> to the feature 2 branch then do a reintegrate it should work.

So what? Can I run svn merge --reintegrate .../feature2 from the trunk?
(even despite I have not reintegrated feature2 into feature1)

Any problems with this?

Can anyone explain about this problem in details?

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Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org
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