RE: svn merge --reintegrate confusion

In order to use --reintegrate you have to first merge trunk into branch
If you don't you will see problems... probably like you are seeing.

BOb

> I'm looking for some clarification of the behavior of the "svn merge

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> reintegrate" command in 1.5. The motivation is, I recently used this
> command to merge a branch into the trunk and, to my dismay, some files
> were changed back to old versions.
> 
> Here are a couple of models for how svn merge --reintegrate works,
> assuming that the command is executed in a trunk working directory.
> 
> Behavior 1: svn merge --reintegrate computes the diff between the most
> recent version of the trunk which was merged into Branch A and the
current
> version of Branch A, and applies that to the working directory.
> 
> Behavior 2: svn merge --reintegrate $svnroot/branches/A computes the
diff
> between the current version of the trunk and the current version of
Branch
> A and applies that to the working directory.
> 
> I had thought that Behavior 1 was correct, but now I'm not sure. Which
is
> correct? Or is it something else?
> 
> Many thanks in advance,
> 
> Reid
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