Merging and Banching (kind of) question.

(posted this to dev by mistake the first time)

I have a repository that has four projects (Proj1, Proj2, Proj3 and Proj4) and I want to create a fifth project (Proj5) that is a copy of Proj4. Most of the work will be done on the new Proj5, but over time I will need to merge all the relevant changes back to Proj4, because it will need to be kept up-to-date. Very little work will happen on Proj4 independent of Proj5.

All the examples for creating copies and merging happen in release versions that sit at the same level as trunk, which is not what I need, so I am unclear if I can just copy Proj4 to Proj5 and then use merge?

If so, what would the merge command look like?

Proj4> svn merge svn://foo.com/trunk/Proj5

But I'm missing revision numbers. I don't want to have to keep track of revision numbers, I just want to merge Proj5 with Proj4.

Is this the best way to handle the situation? The more I look at it, the more I wonder if I am thinking about this correctly.

I could just copy the files and add them as Proj5, but then I loose the history for Proj5, or I could rename Proj4 to Proj5 and add the files to a new Proj4. Seems sloppy.

Thanks, Ron

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Received on Thu Jul 7 19:29:22 2005