Re: Merge Question

On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 10:30:26AM -0400, Brian Erickson wrote:
> Attempt #1 to merge in a change (notice no output)
>
> pcs4.2.10.0 I:\pcs\workstation\server>svn merge --revision 766:767
> --dry-run http://snidely/svn/pcs/trunk \
>
>
> Attempt #2 to merge in a change (notice this one got the one file that
> changed)
>
>
> pcs4.2.10.0 I:\pcs\workstation\server>svn merge --change 766 --dry-run
> http://snidely/svn/pcs/trunk \
> U \pcs\workstation\server\filterfile.c
>
>
> I thought I understood from the docs that the two forms above were
> equivalent but I must be missing something. Can anyone shed any light on
> the situation?

They're not equivalent.

 -c [--change] arg : the change made by revision ARG (like -r ARG-1:ARG)

So --change 766 means --revision 765:766, not --revision 766:767.

Stefan