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Re: Periodically merge between trunk->branch and branch->trunk

From: Kris Deugau <kdeugau_at_vianet.ca>
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 14:27:04 -0500

Daniel Albuschat wrote:
> I'd like to create a branch from trunk and periodically merge trunk
> into my branch to stay up to date with what happens in trunk.
> At some point, the feature in my branch reaches a kind of stability
> that is OK for trunk, so I merge it back to trunk.
> The difference to the standard situation is that I want to continue
> working on the branch, because the feature is not completely finished,
> yet, or it needs further enhancement.
> Currently the only solution I see is to reintegrate the branch to
> trunk and then re-create the branch. This has the shortcoming that all
> developers working on the branch have to switch to the new branch
> (although it is the same URL) to be able to work with it, right? This
> is ok when I'm working alone on my branch, but with a development
> team, it becomes tricky to make sure that everyone properly switch to
> the new branch.

This is covered in the book:

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.branchmerge.advanced.html#svn.branchmerge.advanced.reintegratetwice

-kgd
Received on 2010-12-09 20:27:44 CET

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