Hello all, after nobody could help me with my question, this small log of how I actually merged the view plugins to the loactionmap branch may be from use for you in the future.
First of all read http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/ch04s03.html#svn-ch-4-sect-3.2 http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/ch04s04.html I found out with help of above pages that the starting version of the locationmap branch was 179780. 1) I changed to the viewHelper.xhtml dir and did a --dry-run. This will only preview the changes but not apply them (note the '.' on the end!!!): 17:39:28 [EMAIL PROTECTED]>~/apache/forrest-locationmap/whiteboard/plugins/org.apache.forrest.plugin.output.viewHelper.xhtml $ svn merge --dry-run -r 179780:head https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/forrest/trunk/whiteboard/plugins/org.apache.forrest.plugin.output.viewHelper.xhtml . That gave a *long* list like: U status.xml U output.xmap A messages Skipped missing target: 'messages/ContractsMessages_de.xml' Skipped missing target: 'messages/ContractsMessages_us.xml' Skipped missing target: 'messages/ContractsMessages_es.xml' D resources/skin/css/default.css A resources/skin/css/default.css ... 2) I ignored now that I had some missing target and re-run the command from step 1 without the --dry-run flag set. 17:39:28 [EMAIL PROTECTED]>~/apache/forrest-locationmap/whiteboard/plugins/org.apache.forrest.plugin.output.viewHelper.xhtml $ svn merge -r 179780:head https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/forrest/trunk/whiteboard/plugins/org.apache.forrest.plugin.output.viewHelper.xhtml . U status.xml U output.xmap A messages A messages/ContractsMessages_de.xml A messages/ContractsMessages_us.xml A messages/ContractsMessages_es.xml D resources/skin/css/default.css ... Like you see the "Skipped missing target" have been automatically added. :) 3) I changed to the view plugin and repeated step 1&2: 17:54:36 [EMAIL PROTECTED]>~/apache/forrest-locationmap/whiteboard/plugins/org.apache.forrest.plugin.internal.view $ svn merge --dry-run -r 179780:head https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/forrest/trunk/whiteboard/plugins/org.apache.forrest.plugin.internal.view . 4) svn merge -r 179780:head https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/forrest/trunk/whiteboard/plugins/org.apache.forrest.plugin.internal.view . 5) The last step was to copy the new plugin that I created in the meantime in the trunk as well to the branch: 18:00:10 [EMAIL PROTECTED]>~/apache/forrest-locationmap/whiteboard/plugins $ svn cp https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/forrest/trunk/whiteboard/plugins/org.apache.forrest.plugin.input.viewHelper.xhtml.ls . 6) Now I did a last control: 18:01:09 [EMAIL PROTECTED]>~/apache/forrest-locationmap/whiteboard/plugins $ svn st A + org.apache.forrest.plugin.input.viewHelper.xhtml.ls M org.apache.forrest.plugin.output.viewHelper.xhtml/status.xml M org.apache.forrest.plugin.output.viewHelper.xhtml/output.xmap A + org.apache.forrest.plugin.output.viewHelper.xhtml/messages ... 7) Finally I committed this changes to the locationmap-branch. The only important thing is now to remember the revision number 190293. :) [EMAIL PROTECTED]>~/apache/forrest-locationmap/whiteboard/plugins $ svnc -m "merged changes on the view package from the TRUNK to the locationmap branch." HTH -- thorsten "Together we stand, divided we fall!" Hey you (Pink Floyd)