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Re: Applying multiple commits done to a branch to another branch

From: Daniel Becroft <djcbecroft_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 07:40:40 +1000

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:20 AM, Bob Archer <Bob.Archer_at_amsi.com> wrote:
>
>> You're describing a normal usage of merging.
>> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.branchmerge.html
>>
>> You don't want to redo all those commit messages, you want the merge
>> to be aware of the history behind everything that's been done (which,
>> if you're using 1.5 or later, is taken care of), so that svn log can
>> trace back & all those messages fall right in line.
>
> Really... I didn't know this happened. If you look at the log of trunk where you have merged in from branch won't it only show the merge as a single rev with the message you made in the merge commit. How will you be able to trace the log back through the changes made in branch?

It does, but not by default. You need to use the
'-g/--use-merge-history' switch.

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.branchmerge.advanced.html#svn.branchmerge.advanced.logblame

Cheers,
Daniel B.
Received on 2010-06-16 23:41:38 CEST

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