Re: Merge from branch to trunk w/o switching

> suppose there are 2 developers each working on his own branch. From time to time a
> feature in a branch is ready to be shared by all other developers.

> The developer wants to merge the sources from branch to trunk. Since he is still working
> on the branch he does not want to switch to trunk but simply merge from his (branch)
> working copy to the trunk. Is it possible?

> It seems that one has always to switch to trunk before you can merge from a branch?

No as far as I am aware Subversion doesn't have this capability.
Several other version control tools do support this (those that I know
of being distributed version control tools).

Conceptually, if it were certain that all changes on trunk had already
been absorbed into the branch (using the same checks that merge
reintegrate uses I expect), Subversion could probably collect the
necessary information from the server to build the diffs necessary for
a commit (whether it has the necessary out-of-date rules to cause the
commit to fail if any change to trunk is made during the commit is
something I don't know). I do know this feature somewhat goes against
the spirit of Subversion (previewing the effect of changes locally
before committing) so I doubt this will ever be supported.

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Talden
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