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Re: [Subclipse-users] Merging from the tip of a branch into trunk

From: Mark Phippard <markp_at_softlanding.com>
Date: 2006-05-06 03:39:29 CEST

Bradley Wagner <bradley.wagner@hannonhill.com> wrote on 05/05/2006
09:31:39 PM:

> This might belong in the SVN mailling list, but I figured that my
> question was so specific to the UI, it could go here. I'm trying to
> figure out how to merge a single file from the TIP of a branch back into

> the trunk. In CVS, all I would do is just that: merge from branch to
> HEAD. I do remember that some "base tag" was automatically filled or
> something. In Subclipse/SVN however, I don't know how to do this without

> looking up the revision number of the specific change which seems really

> inefficient to me. There doesn't seem to be any notion of a branch's TIP

> in SVN. Is there no way to specify the tip or base of a branch without a

> specific revision number? What's the best way to locate that revision
> number when the branch was created assuming there is no way?
>
> I'm new to SVN and this might be a rookie mis-understanding about
merging.

I never did any branching or merging in the brief time I used CVS, so I do
not really understand what you are asking. Are you saying you just want
to take the file, as-is, from the branch and put it in trunk? If so, then
just copy it to trunk. I'd probably just do this outside of Subversion by
updating the content of the trunk file in my WC based on the contents I
wanted.

Otherwise, in Subversion, you would talk about this in terms of the
changes you have made to the file in the branch. For example, branch was
created at r100, and changes were made to the file in r114, 121 and 156. I
want to merge those changes to the file in trunk, taking into account that
there may have been other changes made to the file in trunk since r100.

OK, to do this, you need to have your WC on trunk. Use Team -> Switch if
needed to switch the URL to trunk. Since you just want one file, select
the trunk version of the file from your WC, probably from the Package
Explorer or Navigator view. Do Team -> Merge. Enter the URL to the file
on the branch as the From URL (it will also be the target URL). Take the
Show Log button, which will show all of the changes that have happened to
the file on the branch. Select the range of revisions you want to merge
and click OK. This will fill in the From and To revisions with the values
you need to do this. Click OK.

Mark

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