[REVIEW] Ch4. Branching and Merging - Advanced Merging

Ben Collins-Sussman sussman at red-bean.com
Sun Jun 15 21:11:11 CDT 2008


Done in r3136.  Is was a bit too wordy to be a sidebar, and so I made
it into a 'final advice' sort of section at the very end of the
Advanced Merging section.  Let me know what you think.


On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 3:06 PM, C. Michael Pilato
<cmpilato at red-bean.com> wrote:
> Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:14 PM, C. Michael Pilato
>> <cmpilato at red-bean.com> wrote:
>>
>>> To that end, a sidebar about some of the things folks might see (such as
>>> copy/move creating mergeinfo, mergeinfo appearing on files that weren't
>>> really touched, a glossed-over explanation of elision) would be a great
>>> thing -- it helps them know they aren't seeing bugs or using the tool
>>> incorrectly.  And if the sidebar also helps folks learn best-practices
>>> for
>>> avoiding the nastier situations, double bonus!
>>
>> Mike, maybe you want to write this sidebar?  Honestly, because I've
>> not been working on merge-tracking, I don't *know* what the common
>> quirks/problems are.
>>
>
> Heh, I suspect Paul is the only person with the full requisite knowledge
> here.  I wouldn't even try to compose the sidebar from scratch myself -- I'd
> be summarizing his article[1] on the topic, instead.  I assumed you'd do the
> same, but you can reassign the Trac ticket my way if you need to.
>
> [1] http://www.collab.net/community/subversion/articles/merge-info.html
>
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