Alexander Klenin wrote:
>>>> 1) When merging a range of revisions from branch to trunk, only
>>>> globally consecutive
>>>> revision numbers gets translated into ranges. Correct behavior would be
>>>> to make ranges from all revisions which are consecutive on the selected branch.
>>>> This is a serious regression, as it essentially forces me to enter
>>>> revision ranges by hand.
>>>> I could take a look at fixing this, but not very soon, I am afraid.
>> I'm not sure I understand you here. If you show the log dialog, select
>> all revisions from the branch you want to merge, then of course there
>> will be multiple revision ranges. But those get 'merged' by the svn
>> library automatically anyway (it determines its own revision ranges from
>> the one we pass to it, i.e. removes already merged revs, concats what it
>> can and then does the merges).
>> Why do you think you have to manually enter a revision range there?
>
> Because I get conflicts otherwise.
> Will try to create a reproduction recipe on a test repository tomorrow.
> Form the description you gave this sounds like an SVN bug.
Reproduction recipe would be fine, yes. Otherwise it would be hard to
find a bug (if there is one).
>> Yes, this only works if the server also understands merge tracking.
>> Otherwise it will merge everything (including already merged revisions,
>> sorry). That's also why it's in the extended menu, not in the default
>> one: it's not something an unexperienced user should use.
>
> I was talking not about 'Merge all' command, but about
> "To merge all revisions, leave the box empty" label in a standard merge wizard.
> First, does it not make 'Merge all' obsolete?
> I think Stefan already answered me positively,
> but after seeing it still in the source I am not sure any more.
> Second, the problem is not that it merges everything (that would be
> understandable),
> but that it merges nothing -- at least in my tests.
Hmmm - could be that it doesn't merge anything. Last time I checked it
merged everything - but as you know the svn devs are working hard on the
merge tracking feature right now, so the behavior changes often. It
might change again before the 1.5 release.
Stefan
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Received on Tue Nov 6 19:48:42 2007