In message <94d710af0907070611q36bb538bl2b129ad78fe6f...@mail.gmail.com>, Sean Qiu writes: > > Interesting, will investigate it with Mark.
I was planning to try it with the latest merge but I ended up raising: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-2110 instead. :-( I'll track the JIRA and keep trying a merge this way occasionally. -Mark. > 2009/7/7 Tim Ellison <t.p.elli...@gmail.com>: > > On 07/Jul/2009 07:10, Sean Qiu wrote: > >> I'm wondering whether we can take advantage of GIT to keep track of > >> all commit information while merging. > >> For now, we can only get a pile of codes each merging. > >> > >> If we can separate it into original records, that would be great > >> improvement to miantain our Java 6 branch. > >> 1. Create a remote branch of trunk5. > >> 2. Create a remote branch of Java6. > >> 3. Pull all commits from trunk5 to Java 6. > >> > >> Seems that it can't handle the conflicts as well as svn merge, had > >> anybody tried similar stuff? > >> Any commends or suggestions? > > > > You probably saw it, but Mark was discussing using the SVN metadata to > > better manage the merges [1]. > > > > [1] http://markmail.org/thread/qntsbhnw3jtuapps > > > > Regards, > > Tim > > >