AW: Reintegrate merge to another branch

Thank you Bob!

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Von: Bob Archer [mailto:Bob.Archer_at_amsi.com]
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 30. Juni 2010 17:53
An: Graf, Andreas; Giulio Troccoli; users_at_subversion.apache.org
Cc: Bruedern, Ivonne
Betreff: RE: Reintegrate merge to another branch

>>> From: Graf, Andreas [mailto:Andreas.Graf_at_ext.eu.panasonic.com]
>>> We are using Tortoise reintegrate successfully to merge changes
>>> back to the branch that have been used for branch-off.
>>>
>>> But if we are using reintegrate to apply the same differences to
>>> another branch, we are getting bad merge results.
>>> Is there a bug-fix for that problem available or is it only
>>> possible to do that merge using range-merging?
>>>

>> Von: Giulio Troccoli [mailto:Giulio.Troccoli_at_uk.linedata.com]
>> I don't think is possible to use --reintegrate. You can always to a
>> "old style" merge with a revision range.
>>
>> But there is something I don't understand. I presume you have
>> created both branches from trunk, so after you have reintegrated
>> the first branch, isn't it ebough to do a merge from trunk in the
>> second branch?

> From: Graf, Andreas [mailto:Andreas.Graf_at_ext.eu.panasonic.com]
> From my point of view, the bennefit of reintegrate is that users do
> not have to take care about the used revisions, so we would like to
> use that functionality for submitting changes to other branches
> too. For instance when we have to provide patches to a test-branch
> before patches are merged back to trunk.

--reintegrate is used to merge changes made to a branch (copy really) back to its parent/ancestor path.

So, your point of view is a bit skewed. Since your branch is not a child copy of the other branch you can not use --reintegrate.

You have several options... you can merge from one branch to the other. It just wouldn't be an integration merge... it would be a regular merge. Merge tracking will ensure that you don't merge the same changes more than once.

Say you have....

/trunk
/branch/Feature1
/branch/Feature1.1

In the above you copied /trunk to /branch/Feature one. You then branched /branch/Fature1 to /branch/Feature1.1.

Let's assume you have made changes to feature 1 and finished those changes. You can --reintegrate Feature1 into trunk. That is fine, since that was its ancestral parent.

However, if you want to bring everything you did in Feature1 to Feature1.1 you would merge from /Feature1 into /Feature1.1 but it would NOT be a reintegration merge.

Bottom line... reintegrate is always used to put the changes made on a branch back into its parent assuming you have merged all changes made on the parent into that branch first.

BOb

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Received on 2010-06-30 17:58:10 CEST