On 6/13/06, mike nicholaides <mike.nicholaides@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey guys,
> I'm making a little tool to make working with branches easier for
> other developers on my team, and I noticed that when I do this:
>
> svn merge -r113:113 file:///c:/repos/someProject/branches/myBranch
> c:\www\working_copy
>
> It takes a long time. I expect merges to take a while because the
> project is about 1.3GB, but in this particular case, it seems like it
> should be go really fast because the revision numbers of the LHS and
> RHS are the same. Logically, there aren't going to be any differences
> between the same revision.
>
> What else is "svn merge" doing besides taking the difference between
> the two revisions and applying those differences to my working copy?
> If nothing, then maybe I can save some time by checking to make sure
> the revisions differ before merging.
It probably just doesn't check if both sides are the same.
I mean it's not like you often merge the difference between A@REV and
A@REV into something ;-)
-garrett
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Received on Tue Jun 13 21:58:47 2006