svn merge --ignore-properties

2014-08-28 Thread Dan Ellis
Hi, This has been brought up before but in a different context ( http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-dev/201311.mbox/%3c20131107155018.gg10...@ted.stsp.name%3E ) We maintain some vendor-like code on some branches that we periodically want to merge into our development branch. The

Re: svn merge --ignore-properties

2014-08-28 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 02:03:59PM -0700, Dan Ellis wrote: > Hi, > > This has been brought up before but in a different context ( > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-dev/201311.mbox/%3c20131107155018.gg10...@ted.stsp.name%3E > ) > > We maintain some vendor-like code on some bran

Re: svn merge --ignore-properties

2014-08-28 Thread Garance A Drosehn
On 28 Aug 2014, at 17:03, Dan Ellis wrote: > > > We maintain some vendor-like code on some branches that we periodically > want to merge into our development branch. The problem is that both in > our development branch and in the vendor-like branch, we use subversion > properties for some house ke

Re: svn merge --ignore-properties

2014-08-28 Thread Dan Ellis
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 02:03:59PM -0700, Dan Ellis wrote: > > Hi, > > Can anyone talk about the robustness of a diff/patch solution to merging > on > > text contents? > > It would work fine, except for tree changes (though 'svn merge' its

Re: svn merge --ignore-properties

2014-08-28 Thread Dan Ellis
> > > I don't think this is a merge problem as much as a conflict resolution > problem. Perhaps efforts would be a better invested in trying to improve > the property conflict resolution mechanisms of 'svn resolve' to make > your workflow easier? > > It sounds like if you'd be in less trouble if yo

Re: svn merge --ignore-properties

2014-08-29 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 02:55:57PM -0700, Dan Ellis wrote: > > > > > > I don't think this is a merge problem as much as a conflict resolution > > problem. Perhaps efforts would be a better invested in trying to improve > > the property conflict resolution mechanisms of 'svn resolve' to make > > you

Re: svn merge --ignore-properties

2014-08-29 Thread Dan Ellis
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 2:14 AM, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 02:55:57PM -0700, Dan Ellis wrote: > > > > > > > It sounds like if you'd be in less trouble if you could 'revert' > individual > > > property changes to the working copy's BASE state independently of the > > > textu

Re: svn merge --ignore-properties

2014-08-29 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 03:40:38PM -0700, Dan Ellis wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 2:14 AM, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 02:55:57PM -0700, Dan Ellis wrote: > > > > > > > > > > It sounds like if you'd be in less trouble if you could 'revert' > > individual > > > > propert