RE: Question about Branching/Merging practices

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lars Grunewaldt [mailto:lgw_at_dark-reality.de]
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 7:02 AM
> To: subversion
> Subject: Question about Branching/Merging practices
>
 
> Wupps: this will lead to some conflicts, because we will actually
> re-"merge" the changes we merged from trunk to the branch in r111 into
> the trunk!
>
> But what can be done to avoid this? Is there a possibility to somehow
> make svn "ignore" changes that have been commited?
> Should we do two merges, like:
>
> svn merge -r100:110 svn://branch
> svn merge -r111:140 svn://branch

Yes. Multiple merges to skip the r111 is the solution.

 
> which would obviously ignore the merged changes from trunk, but leads
> to a LOT of work if more than one time in history changes have been
> merged from trunk to the branch?

Less work than fixing the spurious conflicts. I can't remember if
svnmerge.py helps in this regard or not.

IIRC, you also have to remember not to make any extra, non-merge related
changes during the initial merge to the branch. Otherwise, you won't
remember to merge them back to the trunk.

> Or is this use of svn merge simply
> wrong, and the whole scenario should be handled differently in the
> first place?
 

When it comes out, Subversion 1.5 should handle the situation correctly:

        http://subversion.tigris.org/merge-tracking/requirements.html
More fun 1.5 reading:
        
http://merge-tracking.open.collab.net/servlets/ProjectProcess?tab=2

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