> The relevant pieces of context are missing from above quotes, but the
> important difference is that the changes are coming from one
> repository and
> are merged into a different(!) repository.
What is odd about that? At my employer, there are two repositories, one
(maintained by the SIPfoundry open-source consortium) for the open-source
version of the software, and one (maintained by Pingtel Corp.) for the
commercial version. So we frequently carry changes from the open-source
repository (where most of the development happens) to the commercial
repository.
There's no reason is shouldn't work, "svn merge" is actually just a diff
between the first two versions, followed by a patch to apply the changes to
the third version. In a perfect world, Svn could do some hairy correlations
between all three versions to deduce things like "lines 273 through 279 of
file foo.c were changed between A and B, but in C that file has been renamed
bar.c, so that's the one to change". But it doesn't yet.
Dale
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