[Cialug] Version Control

Jeffrey C. Ollie jeff at ocjtech.us
Sat Jun 9 15:29:41 CDT 2007


On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 11:07 -0500, Ken MacLeod wrote:

> 
> SVN Tip: SVN will make use of merge history if you tell it the
> revision you last merged with, ie. "merge changes from <other-branch>
> from <last-merged-revision> to <current-revision> into
> <current-branch>".  Google "svn merge revision number" for specifics.
> svnmerge.py can automate that until SVN catches up.

The problem with SVN is that it doesn't keep track of the
last-merged-revision on it's own.  Even then, I've had trouble in the
past with merging in Subversion.  svnmerge.py helps, but it's kind of a
ugly hack.

Jeff
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