Branko Čibej wrote on Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 09:52:34 +0100: > On 20.01.2012 03:23, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > > To rule out the common case: are you familiar with Stefan's post giving > > a reasons for this? > > Nope. > > > His argument is that 'cd trunk-wc && svn merge ^/branches/feature-branch' > > and 'cd 1.7.x-wc && svn merge ^/trunk' are syntactically indistinguishable > > but need to execute a semantically different algorithm each. > > Huh. Why? How are branches, once created, not partial mirrors of each > other, with the missing bits noted in mergeinfo? Do you have a link to > the post? I'm really intrigued about this assertion.
Sure, here it is: 12:37:24 @danielsh | wayita: reintegrate? .. 12:37:25 wayita | danielsh: If you want to know why --reintegrate is necessary, see http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-dev/201107.mbox/%3c20110720124721.ga7...@ted.stsp.name%3E Sorry for not including the link originally --- I was tired and couldn't recall how to recompute it.
