RE: Understanding copying/replacing

> Does this allow you to leave certain files that may have been
> customized?
> In other words is there a way to do this to individual files
> or do you have
> to do it a directory at a time?
>

As far as I understand it (correct me if I am wrong, anyone), when you
perform a merge, subversion only merges changes that have ocurred in the
revisions you specify, it does not merge files that have not changed in
those revisions. You can do this for entire directories at once as well.

I just did a small test (to check that you can keep customised files):

branched the trunk
made a change in the branch
committed
made a change in the trunk (same file)
committed
merged from trunk to branch (using the revision I created the branch:HEAD)

Subversion merged the files, keeping both changes (in the branch). Obviously
this would conflict if I had changed the same lines in the file. So
therefore you can branch the trunk and customise it, later merging changes
from the trunk and keep your changes in the branch.

Gareth

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Received on Fri Jan 16 21:34:03 2004