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Re: merge/patch from vendor repository

From: Karl Fogel <kfogel_at_google.com>
Date: 2006-08-24 18:20:16 CEST

"James Sleeman" <bitsyboffin@gmail.com> writes:
> On 8/22/06, Karl Fogel <kfogel@google.com> wrote:
> "James Sleeman" <bitsyboffin@gmail.com> writes:
> > Now we want to bring in a new vendor drop, or specifically, we want to
> > apply to our trunk the changes from thier REV X to thier REV Y.
> >
> > Is there any way of doing this?
>
> Yes, see http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch07s05.html .
>
> Thanks Karl, but not what I'm looking for.
>
> I know I can do it manually (wether you use svn_load_dirs or not,
> it's still a manual process resolving the moves), but I want to know
> if I can do it automatically - the vendor's (subversion) repository
> has all the ancestry data, I have access to it, I want to merge a
> specific range of changes (REV x to REV y) from that repository,
> including ancestry for moved files, into ours.
>
> Effectively, create a patch from REV x to REV y in thier repository
> and apply it to REV x' in our repository to produce REV y' in our
> repository,preserving ancestry of moved files.

Gotcha. I know of no automated solution for that right now. If you
end up scripting one, please post here, of course!

-Karl

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