Branching and merging is not the simplest operation in the world. Svn is one of the easier environments for doing merging.
(a) doing test merges is easy (b) creating branches is easy and quick (c) it does have merge tracking If you had not gotten the 101 property changes, what would your opinion be? Do you have any idea where these property changes came from? JLM Jeremy Mordkoff Director, QA, IT & Release ZeeVee, Inc. One Monarch Drive | Littleton, MA 01460 Office: 978.467.1395 x233 | Fax: 978.467.1404 Mobile: 978-257-2183 j...@zeevee.com www.zeevee.com > -----Original Message----- > From: David Aldrich [mailto:david.aldr...@eu.nec.com] > Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 9:55 AM > To: users@subversion.apache.org > Subject: Is svn branching too difficult? > > Hi > > I have just finished working on a branch and have performed a reintegrate merge back into the > trunk. I only worked on 4 files in the branch and I carefully merged from trunk to branch > several times (including immediately prior to the reintegration). > > The reintegration correctly identified the four files that I had worked on and that had > changed, but also showed 101 files as 'Modified (properties only)'. I know that there are > good documents that describe merging and explain what this sort of state means, but I > struggle to understand what is going on during merging sometimes. > > I feel unable to recommend branching to my colleagues, it just seems too complicated. I don't > think they would have the time or patience to understand the nuances of merging. > > Do other people feel the same way? Is svn branching too difficult? > > (I am using svn server 1.5.5 and the 1.6.11 client. I wonder if things will be better when we > upgrade the server?) > > This is not meant as a complaint, I am simply trying to judge whether svn branching is > workable. > > With best regards > > David
