Can't you simply commit the change to the config file as a separate commit
and not merge that particular change back to the trunk ?
On 7/14/07, Thomas Zumbrunn <tom@dataillusion.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> We are working in standard way recommended by SVN with trunks, branches
> and tags.
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> We are using Visual studio 2005. When we do a branch for a project we
> change parameters within files like the web.config for example that are
> only specific to that branch (eg: Database Settings), when Visual Studio
> re-compiles the project it's also rewrite its on configuration file of the
> solution.
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> The question I have is following, what is the best way in such a
> configuration to merge changes from the branch back to the trunk or to the
> trunk to the branch. We don't want to have these files merged as these are
> specific to the branch and not related to the trunk.
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> Is there any way to ignore some files in the merge process so they don't
> get merge over ? In the merge screen its seems there is no way to choose
> which files are merge, its an all or nothing solution apparently.
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> Or maybe our process is wrong and there are other ways of handling this
> kind scenarios ?
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> Many thanks,
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> Thomas
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Received on Sat Jul 14 14:51:11 2007