On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:50 PM, marc gonzalez-carnicer
<carnicer.lists_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> this was discussed long time ago, i've been looking for an answer
> before posting.
>
> i need to do multiple non-sequential revisions merge (cherrypicking),
> from a "new feature" branch to the trunk. the "new feature" branch has
> been updated with revisions from the trunk several times.
>
> when the "new feature" has been finished and tested it's time to bring
> over. for that, i need to perform the above mentioned cherrypicking,
> which consists on a merge of multiple non-sequential revisions.
>
> for reference, i am using svn 1.5.1 on the client and svn 1.3.2 on the
> server side. i am not using mergeinfo, i can't yet.
>
> the syntax for that appears to be obvious, since examples of it
> neither appear on the svnbook nor on the built-in help. finally, i end
> up with a command like that :
>
>
> $ svn merge \
> -r 2471:2473 -r 2477:2479 -r 2484:2485 -r 2486:2491 \
> -r 2492:2493 -r 2494:2496 -r 2505:2506 -r 2578:2586 \
> -r 2596:2600 -r 2607:2610 -r 2611:2612 -r 2621:2624 \
> -r 2626:2630 -r 2667:2668 \
> svn://srv-peat-svn/home/svn/8568/branches/code.Lane.LNT .
>
> this variant seems to be possible too
>
> $ svn merge -c 2472,2473,2478,2479,2495,2487,2488,2489,2490,2491 \
> svn://srv-peat-svn/home/svn/8568/branches/code.Lane.LNT .
>
>
> to my surprise, neither command does NOT perform a unique merge
> operation, and instead, as many merges as revision ranges specified.
> this causes that if a file has been modified in more that one revision
> group, it is merged more than once. if there are conflicts, the
> situation becomes scary, and the WC a mess.
>
> i was expecting svn merge to behave as the good old svnmerge.py
> script, now forgotten by many.
>
> am i doing something wrong or is it that svn merge can't perform these
> multiple revision merge in just one try? if it is the latter case, i'd
> appreciate confirmation about it.
It does one merge for each revision range specified. This is also how
svnmerge.py did it. After all, it used the svn command line to
perform the merges so it cannot do anything the command like cannot.
--
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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Received on 2009-04-22 22:08:28 CEST