RE: svn merge --reintegration.

A merge to a new branch based on the head of trunk should be no
different than a merge to trunk itself. The secondary merge of the newly
merged branch to trunk will be trivial. I still often do exactly what
you propose so that I can test and debug the merged code before
committing it to trunk.

So the real question is, merge from trunk to branch first or just merge
from branch to trunk and be done with it? I usually decide based on two
things. Is the branch obsolete after this operation? If so, I merge from
branch to trunk. If not, I ask myself which changes am I more familiar
with and I merge FROM there. For some reason I find this easier. If the
merge is painful due to conflicts, I sometimes do the merge one
changeset at a time.

Have you figured out whether or not the conflicts are due to white space
issues such as new lines/carriage returns, tabs/spaces or other
reformatting issues?

jlm
Received on 2010-09-21 14:50:43 CEST