RE: Synchronizing two branches

On Sat, 2004-06-26 at 08:30, Casper Hornstrup wrote:

> Okay, from reading chapter 4, I believe what I want is:
> svn merge --ignore-ancestry http://server/repos/branchA
> http://server/repos/branchB

Nope, you've made the "classic mistake". If you compare the latest
versions of both branches, you're defining a "patch" which

   * adds all the changes that happened on branch B
   * removes all the changes that happened on branch A.

Take a look at the beginning of this section of the book, these first
few paragraphs in "Merging a whole branch to another":

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/svnbook/ch04s04.html#svn-ch-4-sect-4.1

To get the patch you want, you must compare the beginning of the branch
with the end of the branch; then apply that patch to a working copy of
the *other* branch.

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Received on Sat Jun 26 17:21:19 2004