RE: Keeping a reintegrated feature branch alive

> On 29.11.2011 19:34, Woinoski, Michael wrote:
> > My project is migrating from Perforce to Subversion. Currently, our
> > development process uses feature branches (one per developer). We’d
> > like to keep using the working copies of our feature branches after
> > re-integrating them into the trunk. The Red Book says I can do that
> > from the command line with the following command:
> >
> > cd my_calc_wc
> >
> > svn merge --record-only -c 391 ^/calc/trunk # assuming 391 is the rev
> of the re-integration merge
> >
> > If I use TortoiseSVN to re-integrate my feature branch into the trunk,
> > do I still need record the merge in my feature branch’s working copy?
> > If so, is there a way to do it using Tortoise (e.g., the “Only record
> > the merge” option on the Merge Options dialog), or do I have to use
> > the command-line client?
>
> After a merge has been done, you normally shouldn't need to do a --record-
> only merge since the merge itself should have already added all the merge
> info.
> But you can do the same in the TSVN merge dialog. See the attached
> screenshot.

He is right. After you do a re-integrate merge the merge info on the target is recorded. But, you can't do another merge into the branch because it will be confused. So, you do have to do a record merge to add the merged revision to the branches merge info so it won't try to merge that into the branch again.

So, he would need to do a merge into the branch from trunk (or whatever it's anscestor is), select the specific revision of the merge commit and then choose "record only" on the merge options dialog.

BOb

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Received on 2011-12-01 16:15:47 CET