Re: Understanding copying/replacing

"Gareth Lennox" <gareth@dwakn.com> writes:
> 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.

Correct.

"merging a file" doesn't actually mean anything in Subversion. You
can only merge changes from one place to another. (A change might be
the addition or deletion of a file, of course...).

The typical use case is to merge an entire change (i.e., r8330) from
one branch to another.

-K

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Received on Fri Jan 16 21:56:21 2004