On Oct 18, 2006, at 09:27, Ruslan Sivak wrote:
> I'm not sure if I'm doing this correctly. Let's say you are
> working on a branch. You want to get the latest changes from
> trunk because you need/want them in your branch as well and in
> general want to make sure that it will integrate cleanly with the
> trunk.
>
> It was my impression that if you do the same change twice, it will
> just ignore it instead of creating a conflict. Perhaps its not the
> same with binary files.
>
> So let's say you are switched to the branch and do a merge from
> trunk for certain revisions that you want to catch up with.
> After you get those changes into your branch, you test and make
> sure everything works and then commit everything (including changes
> merged from trunk) into your branch.
>
> Now you switch to trunk and merge in changes from the branch.
> Theoretically, it should only end up merging whatever changes were
> made to the branch, and since the changes that were merged from
> trunk are already there, it should not modify those files.
> Either I'm doing something wrong or this doesn't work correctly
> with binary files, but I had a bunch of images which were updated
> in trunk, merged to the branch, committed to the branch, merged
> back into trunk, and they all caused conflicts. This is
> particularly annoying as there doesn't seem to be a way to resolve
> these conflicts in subclupse short of reverting which seemed to
> take forever.
It should work. The fact that it's not suggests you may be running
the wrong commands. Show us the commands you executed.
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Received on Wed Oct 18 22:48:14 2006