Hi,

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:36, Jukka Zitting<[email protected]> wrote:
> When merging fixes back to a maintenance branch I often mark changes
> related to improvements and new features with the --record-only
> option. This makes the svn mergeinfo command more useful in checking
> what fixes could/should still be backported.

hmm, I see.

> Normally we shouldn't be backporting non-bugfix changes, so the above
> practice shouldn't cause too many problems. In cases where you do need
> to merge a non-bugfix change, you can explicitly revert the
> --record-only setting to make the merge work.
>
> Here's an example for the JCR-1988 issue:
>
>    TRUNK=https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jackrabbit/trunk
>    svn merge -c -746932 --record-only $TRUNK
>    svn merge -c 746932 $TRUNK

OK, thanks. I'll do that.

regards
 marcel

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