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Re: Merge tracking and cherry picking only some files in a change set

From: Daniel Rall <dlr_at_collab.net>
Date: 2007-03-08 23:24:39 CET

On Thu, 08 Mar 2007, Justin Johnson wrote:

> On 3/7/07, Daniel Rall <dlr@collab.net> wrote:
> >On Wed, 07 Mar 2007, Justin Johnson wrote:
> >
> >> I brought this up in a different thread but wasn't getting a response,
> >> and it seemed more appropriate to start a new thread specific to my
> >> question.
> >>
> >> First, my understanding is that cherry picking refers to merging a
> >> single complete change set (i.e. revision) instead of the entire list
> >> of revisions that need to be merged. Correct me if I am wrong.
> >
> >The current plan is support merging of only portions of a change set.
> >I've updated the Cherry Picking use case to better reflect this:
> >
> > http://subversion.tigris.org/merge-tracking/requirements.html#cherry-picking
>
> Great. That is more clear now.

To be painfully explicit about this, it's supported at a file
granularity, not at a patch hunk granularity within a file. I think
this still meets your use case, but I wanted to make sure this is
clear.

- Dan

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