I've already done what I need to do simply by editing files by hand
and copying the files into the directory I want, but I'm trying to be
a big boy, pretend my project is too complex for such a simple
solution, and use svn to solve all my problems.
Currently, I'm the only real software person at my job and before I
came everyone was writing programs without using any sort of
versioning software. As the software person in my workplace, I
believe it is in my best interests to try and get everyone using svn
for their projects so that it is easier to go back and see what
changed when and fix problems efficiently.
The problem is that I myself am not very experienced with versioning
software. I've known about CVS forever, but no one used it at school
and we weren't allowed to install it.
So here I am, trying to adopt a repository setup using
trunk/tags/branches. Since I'm still the only one actually using svn,
I've been working on the trunk of this project, but a coworker
recently worked on my latest version of the trunk (copied by hand).
He made some significant changes and added a few new files. Since I
wanted to keep a separate snapshot of his work for testing, I put his
work in as a branch, but then decided his work should be considered a
tag since he was just working on core functionality of the project.
So after running it through a few tests and making some minor
modifications I'd like to bring his code into my trunk while
maintaining the history of changes to the files. People always talk
about branch merges, but I think I want to do a "tag merge", which is
a little backwards.
Since I've never done this before I checked out a new working copy to
try things out. My first attempt with:
svn merge tags/his_work@15 trunk@15 trunk
was disastrous. It didn't copy the new files he added and when I did
an 'svn diff' a bunch of scary blank lines with no diff information
were spit out at me.
So I guess I still don't really know what I'm doing. Should I not be
trying to use svn merge? Should I just be using svn copy and delete?
What exactly does svn do in the situation where you want to copy a
newer file on top of the older one? When I do this by hand, svn just
treats the changes as if I'd just done them all at once right then. I
really don't want to lose the diff data.
Suggestions?
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Received on Thu Oct 14 18:35:53 2004