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RE: [TSVN] Problems with merging two trunks

From: Marc Eggenberger <me_at_devnull.ch>
Date: 2005-03-24 14:35:26 CET

[...]

> Merging has caused some confusion and as a result we have
> improved the merge dialog and the doc to make it all clearer.
> Unfortunately those improvments won't make it into the 1.1.4
> bugfix release, but they will be in the 1.2 release due late
> April, early May.

Aha .. Ok, your notes below helped a lot but I'm eager for 1.2

> To understand how merging works you should read the online
> version of the subversion book. The chapter on merging has
> been significantly improved recently.
>
> Firstly, the merge takes place in your working copy, not
> directly in the repo. You would want to review your changes
> before committing them. So your WC needs to be switched to
> the branch which will receive the changes, ie. 1.1.
>
> What you want to do is merge a range of revisions from 1.0
> into 1.1. The To and From fields specify that range, but
> there is a gotcha. Because merging applies a diff (read the
> SVN book to understand this), if you want to merge the
> changes in revisions N to M, you need to specify
> From=N-1 and To=M
>
> Example:
> Merge revisions 123-127 from 1.0 into 1.1 Switch WC to 1.1 Merge from:
> http://myserver/repos/UniqueID/UserWebInterface/branches/1.0
> rev 122 Merge to:
> http://myserver/repos/UniqueID/UserWebInterface/branches/1.0 rev 127
>
> The results of the merge are now in your 1.1 working copy,
> and you can check that everything works, then commit.

Thats it! It worked. Thanks a lot for clearing this out.

> Alternatively, if you want to try the nightly build you will
> find that the interface is more intuitive, and the
> documentation improved. You still end up doing the same
> thing, it is just more obvious how to get there.

Can't use nightly build. I use the unsupported version because I work
with Web Projects in .NET Studio ;(

But your notes helped me doing it.

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