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Re: how to pick up the revisions on a renamed branch?

From: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday_at_crashcourse.ca>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:12:52 -0400

   whoops, never mind, i think i puzzled it out.

Quoting "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday_at_crashcourse.ca>:

> i suspect there's an easy way to do this with svn 1.5 but i'm
> currently stuck with 1.4 for a while so i'm open to suggestions.
>
> - start with trunk
> - to do some specialized work, create branch "b1" and get to
> work on "b1"
> - after a while, create a more specialized branch off of "b1"
> called "b2" and get to work on "b2"
> - after a while working on "b2", realize it's a bad name and
> "svn rename" it to "c2" instead, continue working on "c2"
> - finally done, time to start merging everything back
>
> uh oh.
>
> my first thought is that i want to merge everything on the b2/c2
> branch back into b1, then merge *that* back into trunk. but at
> this point, how do i get access to the revisions that were on
> the former "b2" branch between the time i created it from "b1",
> and the time i renamed it to "c2"?
>
> technically, since i renamed "b2" -> "c2", the "b2" branch doesn't
> exist anymore. normally, on a branch, i'd ask for the log and
> "--stop-on-copy", but that causes the log to stop at the point of
> the renaming.
>
> am i making any sense? as i see it, if i have multiple levels
> of branching, the normal way to start merging them back in is in
> reverse order. but i'm not sure what to do about that "missing"
> interval that was part of a branch that no longer exists.
>
> is this something i would solve with peg revisions? thanks.
>
> rday
>
>
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