Merge tracking between several parallel branches

[Fredrik Orderud <fo...@gmail.com>]

This question has already been posted on the "users" list, but I did
not receive any answer there.

I have some questions regarding the status of the merge tracking
functionality in subversion 1.6.  Based on my understanding, it seems
like svn has good “automatic” support for merging between branches in
one direction, whereas cyclic/bidirectional merging requires a more
complex “reintegrate” + “record only” merge procedure. I am wondering
if this support also extends to scenarios with repeated merging
between several parallel release branches.

Does svn handle arbitrary "directed acyclic" merging between several
parallel branches, when merging is always conducted in the same
direction (e.g. from old to newer release branch)?

Does the “reintegrate” + “record only” merge procedure extend
gracefully to scenarios with arbitrary cyclic/bidirectional merging
between several parallel branches?

Thanks in advance,
Fredrik Orderud

Re: Merge tracking between several parallel branches

[Stefan Sperling <st...@elego.de>]

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 01:08:47PM +0100, Fredrik Orderud wrote:
> This question has already been posted on the "users" list, but I did
> not receive any answer there.

Hi Fredrik,

The dev@ list is not an escalation path for unanswered questions from
users@.  I'd suggest that you try posting to users@ again. Maybe it
just happened that nobody had time to answer when you sent your
original question. You can reply to your own users@ post to raise
awareness of the fact that you're still looking for an answer.

Good luck,
Stefan