On May 23, 2011, at 11:28 PM, anatoly techtonik wrote:

Hi,

Is there any feature comparison between svnmerge.py and `svn merge`
from 1.6 merge tracking?

The major differences are:

        svn merge
                Does per-file merging
                Does not block revisions, need to fake it
        svnmerge.py
                No per-file merge tracking, only per revision
                svnmerge.py block and unblock supported


What do we lose if we switch to `svn merge`? How can we do this?

If you don't block, then not a lot.

See these scripts to migrate:

https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/contrib/client-side/svnmerge/svnmerge-migrate-history.py
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/contrib/client-side/svnmerge/svnmerge-migrate-history-remotely.py

I haven't used them myself.

Regards,
Blair

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Blair Zajac, Ph.D.
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