In my case, we have 4 people working on a feature branch. At various
checkpoints, defined by the systems manager, we re-integrate back to the
trunk.
If we remove and re-create the branch, what happens to our working
copies?
Thanks,
Brian
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Phippard [mailto:markphip_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 11:24 AM
> To: Nathan Nobbe; users_at_subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: Fwd: svn1.5 seems to fail simple merge-tracking scenario
>
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Stefan Sperling
> <stsp_at_elego.de> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 08:57:28AM -0700, Nathan Nobbe wrote:
> >>
> >> hi,
> >>
> >> we are migrating to svn1.5 at the office. ive been
> running some tests
> >> using the svn1.5.5 merge tracking and ive run a simple
> bidirectional
> >> merge test, and i dont see it leveraging the merge
> tracking. let me
> >> illustrate the flow, and open up the floor to folks who
> can clarify
> >> things for me.
> >> imagine there is a file in a branch,
> $branches/test/a.c, then a branch
> >> is created from there,
> >> svn cp $branches/test $branches/test-b
> >> ok, now, we checkout both branchs, and make a change to a.c, in
> >> test-b, and commit it.
> >> cd test-b
> >> vi a.c # add a line
> >> svn commit a.c
> >> then we merge back to upstream,
> >> cd ..
> >> svn up test
> >> svn merge --reintegrate $branches/test-b test
> >> svn commit -m 'merge --reintegrate test-b' test
> >> now the change from test-b is in test. so now, we go
> into test-b,
> >> and
> >
> > Don't go on using $branches/test-b after you have reintegrated it.
> > You want to svn rm $branches/test-b at this point.
> > If you need it again, re-branch.
> >
> > See http://blogs.open.collab.net/svn/2008/07/subversion-merg.html
>
> The alternative is that you can use the svn merge
> --record-only option to record the merge on test-b so that
> subsequent merges do not attempt to merge back that revision.
>
> Personally, I think removing the branch and recreating
> when/if there is more to do is cleaner.
>
> --
> Thanks
>
> Mark Phippard
> http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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