Re: Merge Wizard?

On 01/11/2007, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn@gmail.com> wrote:
> Peter McNab wrote:
>
> > Did a merge using the new sequence of dialogs (Wizard?).
> > Liked the explanation on the two choices of merge type.
> >
> > In the same panel as the 'Test' button is another checkbox, whose
> > descriptive text I now forget.
>
> "only record the merge"
>
> > However it's precise meaning was not clear to me and I couldn't readily
> > find a refernce to it in the help.
>
> The help isn't yet fully updated.

Well that bit was ;-)

<para>
        If you are using merge tracking and you want to mark a revision as
        having been merged, without actually doing the merge here, check the
        <guilabel>Only record the merge</guilabel> checkbox. There are two
        possible reasons you might want to do this. It may be that the merge
        is too complicated for the merge algorithms, so you code the changes
        by hand, then mark the change as merged so that the merge tracking
        algorithm is aware of it. Or you might want to prevent a particular
        revision from being merged. Marking it as already merged will prevent
        the merge occurring with merge-tracking-aware clients.
</para>

Which part needs clarifying?

Simon

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