Again thank you.
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Bob Archer <Bob.Archer_at_amsi.com> wrote:
> Probably a branch rather than a tag. Generally by convention you don't
> want to commit to tags.
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> BOb
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> *From:* CoolBreeze [mailto:coolbreeze812_at_googlemail.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, March 05, 2010 1:36 PM
> *To:* users_at_subversion.apache.org
> *Subject:* Re: Merge question
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> Thanks Bob. I'm trying to get an understanding of how Merge works. I was
> actually thinking in the case I presented that Bob actually shouldn't be
> checking his unfinished work into the Trunk until it is finished as you
> stated and that he should create a Tag to use until it is.
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> Anyway thanks for the clarification!
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> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Bob Archer <Bob.Archer_at_amsi.com> wrote:
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> > Ok after having a few more discussions here's a situation that we face
> > frequently.
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> > Lets say Bob is working on Trunk\ProjectX\File1 and John is working on
> > Trunk\ProjectX\File3 and Trunk\ProjectX\File7. Now Bob needs to leave
> > early for the day, but his code is not complete, regardless he comits his
> > code, so that it's safe within the repository and gets revision 21. Now
> > John at the end of the day comits his code and gets revision 22.
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> > How can a partial merge be done using TortoiseSVN to get John's code, but
> > exclude Bob's due to it not being complete yet? Performing an update
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> > get you revision 22, which in turn would include Bob's code from revision
> > 21.
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> Um, a merge brings changes from one path to another. You may not fully
> understand what merge means.
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> however, if you are saying you want to get John's code to say
> Branches\Stable then you can do a merge and just choose rev 22.
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> However, you really shouldn't let dev check in stuff that isn't done into
> trunk. Bob should create a branch for the issue he is working on and check
> into that. Once all his work is completed it can be merged into trunk using
> --reintegrate and then the issue branch can be deleted.
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> BOb
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Received on 2010-03-05 20:06:42 CET