Re: Symmetric Merge

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Julian Foad
<julianfoad_at_btopenworld.com> wrote:
> I suggest we should leave the --reintegrate option available, meaning "do stricter checks", and after doing the checks
> it will run the symmetric merge code.  Currently the checks are "no local mods" and "no switched subtrees"
> and "no cherry picks"[1], in addition to the "no mixed revs unless overridden" that applies to all merges.

Let me just see if I understand what you are saying here (only talking
about what is now a "reintegrate" scenario):

1) User could just run svn merge. Merge will do the right thing, but
the existing reintegrate checks would not happen.

2) User could also use svn merge --reintegrate. Merge would still do
the right thing, but the additional checks would happen.

Or are you saying that 1 and 2 will be the same no matter what and the
code will just figure it out?

As an API consumer via JavaHL, I would assume I will just have a
single merge API I can run, as opposed to two today. And the API will
do the right thing?

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Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/