Ping!
Raman Gupta wrote:
> Hi, I've read through the use cases for the new merging support. Is
> the use case of bidirectional merging implied or missing?
>
> Example: merging all available changes from branch A to branch B, then
> merging all available changes from branch B back to branch A. This
> would be relatively common on a long-lived feature branch.
>
> This paragraph in the cherry picking section hints at it:
>
>>Additionally, it's important to be able to cherry pick changes in
>>multiple different directions. For example, if you create a release
>>branch B by copying the trunk you should be able to both forward
>>port changes made on B into trunk and backport changes made on trunk
>>into B without confusing the merge tracking algorithm.
>
> However, cherry-picking implies that the user is picking specific
> changes to merge, which means that they would generally not pick the
> "reflected" changes. On a feature branch one would generally just
> merge over all available changes, which for a naive implementation
> would include the reflected changes merged from the target branch.
>
> Cheers,
> Raman
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Received on Sun Jul 23 21:52:01 2006