Merge & blame

In our repository, there are two access groups; admins and developers.
Production code (/trunk) is readable to all, but only writable to admins.
Most (if not all) development changes are actually executed in /branches by
people in the developers group.

Using svn merge to integrate changes into the trunk is the obvious method,
however:
1) All incremental commits to the branch are lost
2) "blame" ownership gets changed to the person doing the merge - the admin
user

Is there any way around this? "switch" looked promising, until I watched it
delete some newly-created files. :(

Is this related to the lack of "merge tracking" I'm reading about in other
threads? If so, then I'm encouraged by the fact that it's on the to-do
list, and am curious as to which version of SVN for which this is likely to
be implemented.

TIA...

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Matt Campbell, Programmer Analyst
The Relizon Company (Timonium, MD)
Tel: 410-308-7059 Fax: 410-561-8237

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Received on Fri Jul 2 21:55:23 2004