Merging from trunk into a branch

Hi,
       I am using subversion (1.4) for the first time.
       I have read the subversion book and found that merging changes from a feature branch into the trunk must be done only from the last merge; basically applying the last set of changes.  
       But I have doubts about the opposite operation: merging from the trunk into the feature branch.
       
       Lets assume that I keep a feature branch and from time to time I want to receive changes done to the trunk by other teams. The subversion book makes reference only on applying the difference from a revision of the trunk into the branch.  In page 83 of the book:
       
$ svn merge -c 344 http://svn.example.com/repos/calc/trunk
U integer.c
$ svn status
M integer.c
        
            Is this the right way to merge changes from the trunk into the branch?
            The command is only applying the change of the specified revision (343:344), right?

            I want to apply all changes from the trunk into my branch -merging them into my branch, reviewing and commit into the branch-
            Should I also be keeping track of the last time I performed a merge operation?

            I have used previously the product Accurev, I am trying to define the set of svn commands that would be the equivalent of an accurev update  -bring changes from the parent stream (the  trunk) into my workspace-  and the accurev promote command (merging changes from the  child stream -the branch- into the parent stream -the trunk- ).

            Has anybody in this list have used both systems: accurev and subversion? I would like to hear from you. There is no question in my mind that Accurev is superior -sorry Subversion folks-; but I am not trying to convince anyone of that. (Subversion is free after all!)  I just want to know how to apply the same concepts I already know (update and promote) into the Subversion world. I am a strong believer of using feature branches (or streams as called in accurev); but this requires a frequent use of merging from and to the trunk. I need to come up with a very specific set of procedures for our development team to perform the merges appropriately.

Thanks

-Jorge

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Received on 2008-05-20 20:31:20 CEST