On Apr 16, 2008, at 4:49 PM, Hari Kodungallur wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Laker Netman wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to pick, say, one of three changes made in a
>> particular old revision of an individual file and merge it back
>> into "head" version of that file? If so, where can I find
>> documentation on it? I looked in the Subversion book, but
>> everything I could find pertained to merge entire documents or
>> branches.
>>
>> Otherwise, I presume I can just copy an paste the desired portion
>> in the old rev into my WC version and submit it, though that seems
>> less elegant.
>>
>> I'm running TortiseSVN, FWIW.
>
> You can pick all the changes within one file (out of several) from
> a particular revision -- by, well, merging just that file. But it
> is not possible to pick a subset of changes within a single file
> when you do a merge.
> The less elegant way you mentioned is the way out!
Right, and it's not really a problem anyway. Subversion doesn't know
the difference between changes that were made by hand and changes
that were made as a result of a merge. To Subverison it's all the same.
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Received on 2008-04-17 06:42:24 CEST