Scott Palmer wrote:
>
> On 30-Jul-05, at 11:31 AM, David Summers wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>>
>>> On Jul 29, 2005, at 3:35 PM, David Summers wrote:
>>>
>>>> While on the branch I did a "svn merge -rLAST_WEEKLY_MERGE+1:HEAD
>>>> URL_OF_TRUNK".
>>>
>>>
>>> This is your mistake. If you first run
>>>
>>> svn merge -r 50:100 trunkURL
>>>
>>> ...and then two weeks later, run
>>>
>>> svn merge -r 101:200 trunkURL
>>>
>>> ...then the change made in r101 is never merged! You've skipped a
>>> revision. And this is why you're getting conflicts further down the
>>> road. Your second merge command should have been -r 100:200.
>>
>>
>> OK, Thanks, I'll have to expiriment with that I guess.
>>
>> The reason I did the LAST_WEEKLY+1 was because the LAST_WEEKLY was
>> the number of the last weekly commit itself (hopefully that makes
>> sense).
>> I.E., I originally did svn merge -r 1:99 URL_OF_TRUNK and committed
>> that as r100 on the branch, then later I did svn merge -r 101:199
>> URL_OF_TRUNK.
>
>
> The merge command merges the changes that were made *starting with*
> one revision to get to another revision.
> In you example above, what changes were made to get from r100 to
> r101? In your case it would be ok to skip the commit to trunk, but
> you are also skipping that the next commit after it. It probably
> isn't worth the effort to try to skip commits that happen on an
> unrelated branch, since they won't be included in the branch you are
> merging anyway.
If what Scott says is true, which I believe it is, then why would Ben
suggest the use of 100 to remove the errors? ie. overlapping the
previous last rev with the current first rev. I have always skipped the
commit rev on the branch just like David suggests. It seems so logical
somehow. I am confused a bit now.
-Martin
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Received on Mon Aug 1 18:45:56 2005