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Re: Directory Merges and svn:ignore

From: Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman_at_collab.net>
Date: 2004-12-05 02:03:40 CET

On Dec 4, 2004, at 7:09 AM, trlists@clayst.com wrote:

> svn 1.1.1, W2K
>
> I have two branches, development and release, and merged some bug fixes
> from the release branch into the development working copy by merging
> the whole source directory. It appears that the svn:ignore property in
> the release branch came along with the merge, which makes sense as it's
> a property of the directory. However the things I want ignored are not
> the same in the two branches so this was not the desired behavior. I
> can reset it as I keep the ignores for each directory in a text file in
> that directory, but I'm wondering if there is a way to prevent this
> when merging a whoe directory.
>

If you tell 'svn merge' to merge a whole directory, there's no way to
have the command pay attention to some differences and ignore others.
The merge command is really very simple: "compare two trees, and apply
the resulting patch to my working copy". No filters, no fancy
switches, no frills.

However, since the result of 'svn merge' is a bunch of local edits in
your working copy, you're free to review and undo any number of the
changes, before you commit.

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