2009/4/13 Talden <talden_at_gmail.com>
> > 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 a commit (whether it has the necessary out-of-date rules to cause the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.
>
Also if you did it this way you'd still face the problem of either marking
the branch as having been integrated or deleting the branch and re-creating
it... otherwise merge tracking would be fecked
-Stephen
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