On 13/07/09 19:16, Stefan Küng wrote:
> Andrea wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've had this situation (tortoise 1.6.3), connected to a server 1.5.X.
>>
>> I merge from branch 1 to branch 2 and I select rev 71 and from 87 to 89
>> in the gui.
>>
>> Then I test the merge and some files in 87,88,89 fail to be merged.
>> If I then run the actual merge everything works fine.
>>
>> Is it because changes 87-89 need 71 to apply properly? And Tortoise's
>> Test Merge always tries to merge on the working copy.
>> And then, when I do the actual merge 87 is applied on top of 71?
>
> The test merge is just that: a test. It doesn't run the whole merge, so
> the output is only guessed, not actually done. So while that guessing is
> really good, it can't be 100% accurate since that can only be done by
> actually executing the merge.
>
> Stefan
>
Thanks for the confirmation.
I should be ok with the full merge, which can always be reverted.
Thanks
Andrea
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