[TSVN] Re: TSVN Merge issue vs. "Feature Branches" in SVN book

Dave Peterson wrote:
> Simon Large <slarge <at> blazepoint.co.uk> writes:
>
>> However, all the examples in the SVN book actually use the alternate
>> form and there is a warning in the "Common Use Cases for Merging"
>> section about doing it that way. Normally you want to merge a range
>> of changes from your branch back into the trunk (or vice versa).
>
> Admittedly, I'm not an SVN or TSVN expert, but from my reading of the
> SVN book it sounds like they have two patterns of doing development
> within branches.

Well for a non-expert, that sounds a pretty good explanation to me :-)

I just discovered that the online version of the SVN book contains this
info, whereas the older (December) help file on my PC doesn't.

> FWIW, I'm trying to do the second pattern because we have some large
> features that will take awhile to develop but we don't want to get
> too out of sync with the trunk -- that would risk alot of conflicts
> and problems. Unless I'm missing something, if we sync our banch to
> the trunk periodically, then the only way to find the changes made in
> just our branch is to diff the two head revisions.

Now that I understand the merging model, I can see why you want to do it
this way. Let us know if you can come up with a reproduction recipe.

Simon

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