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Posted to dev@subversion.apache.org by Daniel Berlin <db...@dberlin.org> on 2006/07/07 11:42:18 UTC

Re: suggestion about the merge-tracking branch

Madan U Sreenivasan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>     This is about the merge-tracking code.
>     Am wondering why 'merge' insists on a revision range on the command  
> line. If for example the user wants to merge r12, it implicitly means  
> r11:12. Why cant this be generated? 

It is, if you use -c

svn merge -c 12 will do what you want.

> Why should we put the burden on the  
> user?

Eventually in fact, the minimum is that we shouldn't require a revision
range at all, just a url, since we can figure out the rest on our own
with merge tracking info.

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Re: suggestion about the merge-tracking branch

Posted by Madan U Sreenivasan <ma...@collab.net>.
On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 17:12:18 +0530, Daniel Berlin <db...@dberlin.org>  
wrote:

> Madan U Sreenivasan wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>     This is about the merge-tracking code.
>>     Am wondering why 'merge' insists on a revision range on the command
>> line. If for example the user wants to merge r12, it implicitly means
>> r11:12. Why cant this be generated?
>
> It is, if you use -c
>
> svn merge -c 12 will do what you want.

will try it out. Thanks!

>
>> Why should we put the burden on the
>> user?
>
> Eventually in fact, the minimum is that we shouldn't require a revision
> range at all, just a url, since we can figure out the rest on our own
> with merge tracking info.

+100. :)

Regards,
Madan.


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