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RE: Feature Request: merge by drag

From: Ilya Nenashev <nashev_at_mail.ru>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 07:09:41 -0700 (PDT)

> On 5/12/2015 01:05, Ilya Nenashev wrote:
> > Some times I'm working in a one branch in a one working copy and want merge commited changes into working copy of trunk or other branch.
> > I very happy when by drag'n'drop by right mouse button I have "SVN Copy and rename versioned item here" command etc, but I will more happy, if there are will be also "Merge versioned item's changes" for files and folders!
>
> That's not really a good idea.
>
> Merges in SVN are intended to operate on entire revisions, whereas by dragging files around you are implying that you want it to operate on only those files that are dragged.
>
> Even if this were possible, it would significantly mess up the revision-based merge tracking.
>
> It could almost make sense if the folder being dragged is the root of the working copy, but the problem with this is that there'd be no way to specify the range of revisions that should be merged, and things get even more confusing if multiple folders were dropped.

I mean, after this drop must open Merge dialog in 'Merge revision subrange' mode with dropped folder's URL in 'URL to merge' field

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