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Re: Automatic merge comment includes unrelated changes

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 20:23:30 +0100

On 06.03.2014 15:15, Olivier Sannier wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When one merges changes from a given branch into a working copy, the
> "Recent messages" list conveniently gets populated with a generated
> message listing where the merge occured from alongside the revisions
> authors and comments associated with them.
> The issue I'm facing is that this list contains comments from changes
> that did not occur on the branch. Let's say for instance that I have two
> branches and a trunk :
>
> /branches/b1
> /branches/b2
> /trunk
>
> b1 and b2 where created from /trunk at revision 10
> b1 received two commits at revision 15 and 20
> b2 received no further commits
> trunk received the remaining commits (11-14, 16-19)
>
> I'm now merging branch b1 into b2 and so only revs 15 and 20 are merged.
> When I go into the "Recent messages" list in the commit dialog, I find a
> generated message, but that message lists commit messages for all
> revisions from 11 to 20 when I was expecting to have commit messages
> only for revs 15 and 20
>
> I'm using TortoiseSVN 1.8.5 but what I'm writing about was also
> happening with TortoiseSVN 1.8.4 but did not in older versions
> (definitely not in 1.7).
> This issue happens in all cases, whether I specify the revisions that I
> want to merge (cherry picking with intervals) or not.
>
> I have looked in the issue tracker and could not find anything related
> (I used "merge message" keywords)
>
> Any comments are welcome.

Opened issue #622 for this:
http://code.google.com/p/tortoisesvn/issues/detail?id=622

Stefan

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