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Re: To Merge or copy a feature branch?

From: Gavin Baumanis <gavinb_at_eclinic.com.au>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:22:25 +1000

Ahhh. I see...

You're correct Bob.. I have worded my original post incorrectly...
your assumption is correct.

branches/project1/feature1 is indeed going to;
trunk/project1/feature1

Gavin.

On 17/09/2009, at 00:11 , Bob Archer wrote:

>> I have created a branch for a new feature I am working on and am now
>> ready to merge my branch back to the trunk.
>> All files of the new work (But for a couple) are in a new sub
>> directory.
>>
>> Ie.
>> I have;
>> trunk/project1
>> branches/project1/feature1
>>
>> I was thinking of simply copying the feature1 folder and all contents
>> into trunk/project1 (via svn copy) as opposed to doing a merge...
>> Is this a good practice? Or should I perform the needed task via a
>> merge operation?
>
> I don't understand... why did you add the feature1 folder in the
> branch? Is that going to end up in trunk?
>
> It seems to me if you copy feature1 to trunk then you will have a
> problem. Or, did you mean you want to copy branches/project1/
> feature1 to trunk/project1/feature1 ???
>
> BOb

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