Review of chapter 4 - Branching and Merging
Paul Burba
ptburba at gmail.com
Wed Mar 19 12:26:16 CDT 2008
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Paul Burba <pburba at collab.net> wrote:
> Dear book authors,
>
> Here's a review of the merging aspects of chapter 4 (and related entries
> in
> ch09 reference), including input from Paul Burba.
>
> [[[
> Branching and Merging (ch04)
> ============================
>
> Keeping a Branch in Sync
> ------------------------
>
> On first introducing the basic merge command, reinforce that "svn merge
> URL"
> means to merge changes *from* URL into WC.
>
> After reintegrating, say that I can continue working on the branch and
> catch
> up and reintegrate again, or I can delete the branch, or leave it there
> and
> make that decision later. (Paul noticed a bug in that self-referential
> mergeinfo is currently created by these further catch-up and reintegrate
> cycles; he will look into fixing this.)
I just fixed that bug (r29958) and nominated it for backport.
Paul
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