[Svnmerge] Question about SVN 1.5 vs. svnmerge

[Blair Zajac]

Jon Schewe wrote:
> I've done some reading on the new merge features in svn 1.5 and I'm not
> sure it supports everything that svnmerge does. Perhaps someone on this
> list can either answer the question or point me to an answer.
> 
> I'm doing development with development branches. Each developer has
> their own branch they work on (as we don't share bugs much). Each
> developer merges changes from the trunk when they want to get up to date
> and then merges changes back to the trunk when they're done making
> changes (using -b) and then keeps making changes in their development
> branch and does this all over again.
> 
> Looking at the svn 1.5 documentation it doesn't appear that this is
> supported as you need to use the reintegrate option and then the branch
> is dead. Is this correct?

That's right.  1.5 also doesn't support blocking revisions expect by munging the 
mergeinfo using --record-only.

Regards,
Blair

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