-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/09/2009 07:12 PM, Benji York wrote: > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Christian Theune<c...@gocept.com> wrote: >> On 09/09/2009 05:05 PM, Martijn Faassen wrote: >>> * better merge tracking >> >> For some interpretation of "better". > > My team tried pretty hard to use 1.5's merge tracking and we could never > get it to work well for us. > > The only advantage we ended up seeing was that we could "freshen" a > branch from a trunk easily. Even that didn't buy us much because we > previously had been using the relatively easy approach of "rebranching" > from the trunkand merging from the stale branch to the new, fresh > branch. > > The limitation of only being able to merge a feature branch back to the > trunk once was also quite irritating. > > Plus the merge info properties constantly polluted "svn diff" and "svn > stat" output as well as our commit email (the latter is fixable of > course). > > After trying for a few months we abandoned it. YMMV.
Same here. We also ended up in many deadlock situations having to sacrifice chickens for SVN to resume operations. That's why we started investigating alternatives which are better at branching and merging. Christian - -- Christian Theune · c...@gocept.com gocept gmbh & co. kg · forsterstraße 29 · 06112 halle (saale) · germany http://gocept.com · tel +49 345 1229889 0 · fax +49 345 1229889 1 Zope and Plone consulting and development -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkqok5YACgkQdUt9X/gknwLr+QCdHHnFGExGT3E3FFgVmKqow78g y6AAn3ent24aED7DzH8gdN+XDMdJ/tLQ =Zhv/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )