Indeed it would be easy to lie (accidentally or purposely) to
subversion about a merge. but it's easy to lie in your comments as well.
On Aug 2, 2006, at 10:50 PM, Gavin Lambert wrote:
> Quoth Sebastian Good:
>> This was rather my suspicion. But much as Tortoise can sneak issue
>> management in under the covers, perhaps it can sneak in merge
>> tracking. It knows exactly what the merge was you did... it could
>> store that in a property and allow you to commit it.
>> The accurate but useless human comment "Merged in changes from
>> production hot patch to trunk (12332-12348)" would become
>> tsvn:merge = /myapp/branches/6.1.2@12332-12348
>> ... except that it'd have to accompany a particular transaction.
>> which is where my knowledge of subversion & tortoise gets a bit
>> fuzzy.
>
> A complicating factor is that a merge applies to a working copy --
> the commit is a separate operation from the merge, and will usually
> happen some time later (after you've tested it and made sure it
> still behaves correctly).
>
> It's also possible (although not recommended practice) to perform
> multiple merges from multiple sources prior to committing all of
> them in one go. This could make life complicated for an automated
> solution.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@tortoisesvn.tigris.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@tortoisesvn.tigris.org
>
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@tortoisesvn.tigris.org
For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@tortoisesvn.tigris.org
Received on Thu Aug 3 06:00:14 2006