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RE: Is svn branching too difficult?

From: Jeremy Mordkoff <jlm_at_ZeeVee.Com>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 10:00:49 -0400

Branching and merging is not the simplest operation in the world. Svn is
one of the easier environments for doing merging.

(a) doing test merges is easy
(b) creating branches is easy and quick
(c) it does have merge tracking

If you had not gotten the 101 property changes, what would your opinion
be? Do you have any idea where these property changes came from?

JLM

Jeremy Mordkoff
Director, QA, IT & Release
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Aldrich [mailto:David.Aldrich_at_EU.NEC.COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 9:55 AM
> To: users_at_subversion.apache.org
> Subject: Is svn branching too difficult?
>
> Hi
>
> I have just finished working on a branch and have performed a
reintegrate merge back into the
> trunk. I only worked on 4 files in the branch and I carefully merged
from trunk to branch
> several times (including immediately prior to the reintegration).
>
> The reintegration correctly identified the four files that I had
worked on and that had
> changed, but also showed 101 files as 'Modified (properties only)'. I
know that there are
> good documents that describe merging and explain what this sort of
state means, but I
> struggle to understand what is going on during merging sometimes.
>
> I feel unable to recommend branching to my colleagues, it just seems
too complicated. I don't
> think they would have the time or patience to understand the nuances
of merging.
>
> Do other people feel the same way? Is svn branching too difficult?
>
> (I am using svn server 1.5.5 and the 1.6.11 client. I wonder if things
will be better when we
> upgrade the server?)
>
> This is not meant as a complaint, I am simply trying to judge whether
svn branching is
> workable.
>
> With best regards
>
> David
Received on 2010-05-18 16:01:19 CEST

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