Re: New revision keyword for easier branch management

Ilja Golshtein wrote:
> kfogel@collab.net writes:
>
>>Do you have a complete description of the proposed feature (or, say, a
>>link to Patrik Rak's original mail)? That would help. We need to
>>understand the edge cases before implementing something like this.
>
>
> That thread has the same subject -
> "New revision keyword for easier branch management".
> Could be found here
> http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2005-11/index.shtml#1241
>
> TAIL should be the same revision as log with --stop-on-copy
> stops at. Not sure this description is complete while
> I cannot makeup anything to add.

Yes, I think this is enough as a description.
Couldn't find any RFE on the issue tracker, but not confident I searched hard enough.

To open a can of worms... if we had client-side hooks, we could write a hook that gets executed
before a merge to export $TAIL, then:

  svn merge -r$TAIL:HEAD /branches/branch-foo/ trunk/

Now I do more or less the same, keeping a "database" of last merged revisions for a given branch. It
is error prone and needs discipline.

If somebody is interested, I can put my HOWTO on my website or post it here.

Kalin.

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