Merging and Ancestry

Hi All,

I have

/branch/A
/branch/B
/trunk

Scenario 1
----------
I added a new file test.txt into /branch/A. The same file was needed by
project using /branch/B, so they __added__ it again.

Project in Branch A merged their work into trunk.

When Project in Branch B tried to merge their work into trunk we got a
file out of date error on test.txt. Subversion found this as a new file,
deleted the existing file and added the same file again. At commit we
get an error "Out of Date".

Scenario 2
----------
I added a new file test.txt into /branch/A. The same file was needed by
project using /branch/B, so they __merged__ the file from /branch/A.

Project in Branch A merged their work into trunk.

Project in Branch B merged their work into trunk and all was fine.
(Subversion detected a change and realised the file was identical and
did nothing).

I believe in Scenario 2 Subversion realised that test.txt was an
Ancestor and did a file comparison. Could someone please confirm my
observation.

The problem I have is, Scenario 2 being the correct process, how do I
merge a select set of files from /Branch/A into /Branch/B. Using r20:21
is not possible as the test.txt may not be the only change in that
revision.

Is there an alternate way ?

Thanks
Lakshman

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Received on Thu Aug 17 11:03:41 2006