Symmetric Merge

If anyone wants to try the new symmetric merge code, it's basically in place.  It's not finished.  It's enabled with '--symmetric' command-line option.  I've just tried running it in place of 'reintegrate, using the following patch to the test suite, and this much seems to work...

Index: subversion/tests/cmdline/svntest/actions.py
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--- subversion/tests/cmdline/svntest/actions.py    (revision 1303481)
+++ subversion/tests/cmdline/svntest/actions.py    (working copy)
@@ -1029,6 +1029,9 @@ def run_and_verify_merge(dir, rev1, rev2
   the working copy, but still verify the entire working copy dir. """
 
   merge_command = [ "merge" ]
+  if '--reintegrate' in args:
+    args += ('--symmetric',)
+
   if url2:
     merge_command.extend((url1 + "@" + str(rev1), url2 + "@" + str(rev2)))
   else:

Now I'll try using it in place of 'sync' merges.  But the more interesting thing is it should be able to do repeated 'reintegrate' merges, and indeed arbitrary sequences of to-and-fro merges between a pair of branches, without any 'keep-alive dance'.

Please tell me what you think or what you find!

- Julian
Received on 2012-03-22 10:37:21 CET