On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Julian Foad <julian.f...@wandisco.com>wrote:
> 2 3 4 5 > BranchA--o----------------------------------------- > \ > \ "A:2" > BranchB-----o---o---------------------------------- > \ > \ "A:2 B:3-4" > BranchC------------o------------------------------- > > Philip and I were prompted by a customer to consider why Subversion copies > mergeinfo from branch to branch, in transitive merges (branch A -> branch B > -> branch C). Why do we need mergeinfo on branch C that refers directly to > A? If, as I believe to be the case, Subversion only supports merge > tracking if the branching graph is tree-shaped, then the only merges > allowed to or from branch C are those to or from branch B (and those to or > any further branches to the "right" of it: D1, D2). > > This statement is not true. You can still merge BranchA to BranchC in the above scenario. SVN does not have any limits on where you can merge from and to. -- Thanks Mark Phippard http://markphip.blogspot.com/
