RE: Help! Implementing Bi-Directional Merges

2001-10-16 Thread Nesbitt, Steve
Title: RE: Help! Implementing Bi-Directional Merges Eric: It may occasionally be useful to do this to recover from an unusual situation, but as an ongoing part of your development process, it'd be extremely dangerous! Thanks for pointing out what I missed - that prior to replacing HEAD

Re: Help! Implementing Bi-Directional Merges

2001-10-15 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Monday, October 15, 2001 at 10:52:57 (-0700), Nesbitt, Steve wrote: ] Subject: Help! Implementing Bi-Directional Merges Another way to phrase the question is How do I force the tip of one branch to be identical to the tip of another branch? Check out the source and target branches in

RE: Help! Implementing Bi-Directional Merges

2001-10-15 Thread Nesbitt, Steve
Title: RE: Help! Implementing Bi-Directional Merges Greg: Thanks for the heads up on the html (I love Microsoft - give me back my linux box!) The question I have with this approach is what does my diff look like afterwards? For example, if my base version is 1.3 and I copy the entire file

RE: Help! Implementing Bi-Directional Merges

2001-10-15 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Monday, October 15, 2001 at 12:03:11 (-0700), Nesbitt, Steve wrote: ] Subject: RE: Help! Implementing Bi-Directional Merges Thanks for the heads up on the html (I love Microsoft - give me back my linux box!) Hah! :-) So, why don't you just take it back? Nobody _needs_ M$. Use of M

Re: Help! Implementing Bi-Directional Merges

2001-10-15 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 10:52:57AM -0700, Nesbitt, Steve wrote: Base question is how can I successfully implement a bi-directional merge between two branches when the merge to one branch must be deferred? Another way to phrase the question is How do I force the tip of one branch to be