Re: Confusing situation regarding revisions and changes

2007/9/20, Paul Burba <pburba@collab.net>:
> svn merge -c4,-6,8,9,10,11,12,-20,-21,-22

I just wanted to throw into this discussion that the current
subversion handling of -cN is still problematic (if not faulty), and
before adapting this option to merge tracking you should rethink or
resolve these issues. I am talking about subversion assuming that -cN
is the same as -rN-1:N. This assumption is not true in some cases.
See http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2007-05/0249.shtml

Some of the confusion with revision numbers is that subversion does
not know the term "change" or "changeset". Depending on the operation
applied, at least the docs and the message should reflect if an
operation works on the revisions or the changes. A correct output of
"svn merge -r10:15" could be something like "Merging changes between
r10 and r15" instead of "merging revisions 10 to 15".

Just my two cent...
Norbert

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Received on Fri Sep 21 12:57:27 2007