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Re: What do you Hate about Subversion?

From: Raman Gupta <rocketraman_at_fastmail.fm>
Date: 2007-01-18 14:41:21 CET

B. Smith-Mannschott wrote:
> (*) The lack of merge tracking. Yes, I've tried to wrap my brain
> around svnmerge.py, I can make it work, but I've never quite
> understood how to use bidirectional merging.

Bidirectional merging in svnmerge.py is nothing more than simple
unidirectional merging x 2, with the -b flag specified. That is to
say, init both branches as if you were doing unidirectional merging,
and then just specify the -b flag whenever you run the "avail" or
"merge" commands.

Cheers,
Raman

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