I don't understand the merge command at all...

svn merge seems to defeat my minimal understanding of how Subversion
works. Case in point. I have a branch, call it branches/A. This
morning I branched from it:

    svn copy branches/A branches/B

I made some changes to B, tested them, then checked them in. Then I
wanted to merge those changes back to branches/A. From my branches/A
directory I then executed

    svn merge -r 972:973 http://svnhost/.../branches/B .

972 being the highest rev svn info displayed for branches/A and 973
being the highest rev displayed for branches/B. The merge command was
completely silent.

Doing an svn info on the individual files I see they have revision
numbers higher than 973. Do I have to wander around and figure out
the highest rev of all the changed files and use that instead of 973?
Why do I need revision numbers at all? Can't it just assume the tip
of the relevant branches?

Thanks,

Skip Montanaro
skip_at_pobox.com

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Received on 2009-09-02 21:47:04 CEST