Re: Confusion over the 3 merge forms

On Nov 19, 2004, at 12:30 PM, Stefan Haller wrote:
>
> Uhm. I am confident that you probably know what you are doing, but I'd
> like to warn people that this exact recipe is dangerous: if someone
> manages to commit things to the trunk between your last merge of the
> trunk into your branch and the final merge back, then you are going to
> revert those changes.
>
> To avoid that, the last command should be
>
> $ svn merge trunkURL@Y branchURL
>
> where Y comes from the last 'svn merge -rX:Y trunkURL' into your
> branch.
>

Totally agree. I just left out the details. :-)

Before merging my branch back to trunk, I'd run 'update', discover a
revnum close to HEAD. Then I'd merge trunk changes to branch (using
that specific revnum), then compare trunk and branch together (using
that specific revnum).

In general, it's kinda bad to use HEAD when merging. Too imprecise.

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Received on Fri Nov 19 20:05:50 2004