Maybe thats some stuff for configuration. I like the handy new
interpretation,
but the expert would switch to the svn-like behavior.
I dislike insuperable gaps to svn.
Wolf
sorry for the TOFU (not my idea! :) )
phahn schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> Hmm, ok, I didn't knew that, but I doubt it is a good idea to use a
> different interpretation then the 'reference implementation'.
> IMHO it's not good for software to try to be more clever then the
> user.
>
> In fact if I use the traditional way of specifiieng two URLs and
> revisions it works like the svn cmdline client and therefor this
> behaviour is even more confusing and inconsistent.
> This is especially true since the help file is saying something
> different by explaining the 'default' behaviour of svn.
>
> cite:
> "Merge a range of revisions
> This method covers the case when you have made one or more revisions
> to a branch (or to the trunk) and you want to port those changes
> across to a different branch.
>
> What you are asking Subversion to do is this: “Calculate the changes
> necessary to get [FROM] revision 1 of branch A [TO] revision 7 of
> branch A, and apply those changes to my working copy (of trunk or
> branch B).” "
>
>
> cite:
> "If you have already merged some changes from this branch, hopefully
> you will have made a note of the last revision merged in the log
> message when you committed the change. In that case, you can use Show
> Log for the Working Copy to trace that log message. Use the end point
> of the last merge as the start point for this merge. For example, if
> you have merged revisions 37 to 39 last time, then the start point for
> this merge should be revision 39."
>
> Maybe this should be revised again.
>
> regards,
>
> Peter
>
>
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> On 19/09/2008, phahn <pjtr.h..._at_googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I think there is a bug in " > Merge > Merge range of revisions "
>>> dialog.
>>> The start revision set in "Revisions to merge" is decremented instead
>>> of incremented.
>>>
>>> E.g.
>>>
>>> If we would like to merge r 105 : 110 that is in fact changeset
>>> 106,107,108,109,110 i.e. the range of revisions should be from 106 to
>>> 110.
>>>
>>> That is exactly that the svn cmdline client does if you say:
>>> 'svn merge -r 105-110 //REPO/PATH //WK/PATH'
>>>
>>> Tortoise instead tries to merge from 104-110 if you say 105-110. This
>>> results in merging the same changes twice and producing conflicts.
>>>
>> Not a bug, but a difference in interpretation. TSVN assumes users talk
>> about a revision as 'all the changes that were committed in that
>> revision'. When merging, you say 'I want to merge the changes made in
>> revisions x through y'. In SVN you must supply two revisions to
>> indicate 'all changes made after revision X up to and including Y'.
>>
>> So in a sense you are incorrectly giving the SVN style input to an
>> TSVN input field. Behind the scene TSVN 'translates' the input to what
>> SVN needs by subtracting 1 from the inital revision number given by
>> the user.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Jean-Marc
>>
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