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RE: Question about mergeinfo

From: Giulio Troccoli <Giulio.Troccoli_at_uk.linedata.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 15:41:30 +0100

> Another question: we do revision based merging, promoting
> stories/goals not necessarily in the same order they were
> committed in the trunk. Besides helping in tracing the
> changes in the branch the the original logs, is there any
> other utility in having the mergeinfo information?

I can't help you much about the mergeinfo, but are you saying here that you *only* do revision based merging, a.k.a. cherry-picking merging? Becuase if that's the case you don't need the mergeinfo at all and you can use the --ignore-ancestry option of the merge command to not store any mergeinfo. The history is preserved regardless of the mergeinfo. But, you probably mean you do cherry-picking merging from trunk to branch and then reintegrate the branch to trunk, so you do need mergeinfo.

Giulio

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Received on 2010-08-06 16:42:11 CEST

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