Hi Simon,
> Hi - Can anybody explain to why when doing a merge you need to
> enter the path in the following manner:
>
> svn merge --dry-run -r 40:41 svn://ipofserver/phoenix/trunk/gui/mpa
> c:/scstest/hiptapp/mpa
>
> I'm trying to merge the commit that resulted in revision 41 -
> surely subversion knows what path(s) in the repository that
> revision 41 related to so why can't I just enter svn://ipofserver -
> I can sort of undertand why I need to enter a destination path for
> my working copy but am a confused what happens if revision 41
> included several files in different directories - do you just use
> the top most path as the path for your working copy.
You need to specify the source path/url because Subversion allows you
to merge from one base to another. For instance, if you wanted to
merge from /branch/branch1 to /trunk, you need to tell Subversion to
use /branch/branch1 as the base to merge from. The merge command
will then create a diff for the two supplied revisions and apply that
diff to the target working copy path. If you didn't supply the
source base, Subversion wouldn't have any idea what to use as a root
for the merge. Remember that /branches, /trunk, and /tags don't have
any special meaning to Subversion itself. They're just directories.
Any meaning they have is based on your own conventions.
> The reason I wanted to do this was to try & simplify my merging.
> When I do a commit I store that revision against a ticket number in
> a database & assumed that it would have been sufficient just to
> store the revision number rather than all the paths.
Better merge tracking is an oft-requested feature for Subversion, and
one that is definitely on the roadmap. It's just that it's a
difficult problem, and not one that anyone wants to rush into since
getting it wrong would likely be worse than not having it.
If you want merge tracking now though, you do have some options. You
might want to check out svnmerge and/or svk. Both are projects that
give you some better merge tracking (svk is much more than that,
though).
http://www.dellroad.org/svnmerge/index
http://svk.elixus.org/
-Bill
> Thanks - Can you include me in the reply as I not a member of the
> users mailing group - well I was but I got swamped with emails & my
> boss wasn't happy !
>
> Simon
>
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