On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Philip Martin <philip.mar...@wandisco.com>wrote:
> > 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. > > Yes, Subversion allows one do it, but it doesn't work reliably. It's > the standard cyclic merge problem. If we mix merges that go A-to-B-to-C > with merges from A-to-C then conflicts can occur. You must know this: > Yes I am aware that the cyclic merge issues would apply here as they do elsewhere, but that is different than saying we do not support these scenarios. Even in the cyclic merge scenario Subversion is not preventing you from doing a merge, it is simply not doing it as well as one could hope it would and leads to conflicts that you should not have to resolve. -- Thanks Mark Phippard http://markphip.blogspot.com/
