On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 20:27, Kris Deugau <kdeu...@vianet.ca> wrote: > Daniel Albuschat wrote: >> >> I'd like to create a branch from trunk and periodically merge trunk >> into my branch to stay up to date with what happens in trunk. >> At some point, the feature in my branch reaches a kind of stability >> that is OK for trunk, so I merge it back to trunk. >> The difference to the standard situation is that I want to continue >> working on the branch, because the feature is not completely finished, >> yet, or it needs further enhancement. >> Currently the only solution I see is to reintegrate the branch to >> trunk and then re-create the branch. This has the shortcoming that all >> developers working on the branch have to switch to the new branch >> (although it is the same URL) to be able to work with it, right? This >> is ok when I'm working alone on my branch, but with a development >> team, it becomes tricky to make sure that everyone properly switch to >> the new branch. > > This is covered in the book: > > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.branchmerge.advanced.html#svn.branchmerge.advanced.reintegratetwice
Before going down that route, be sure to have understood the implications of issue 3650: http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3650 short summary: this technique renders `svn log --use-merge-history` useless. // Ben
