On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:06 AM, Vincent Hennebert <[email protected]>wrote:

> Glenn,
>
> On 05/06/12 16:47, [email protected] wrote:
> > Author: gadams
> > Date: Tue Jun  5 15:47:31 2012
> > New Revision: 1346437
> >
> > URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1346437&view=rev
> > Log:
> > Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/trunk' into commons-1_5rc1
>
> Please use Subversion and not Git to merge branches. You are free to use
> Git behind the scenes if you wish to, but that must remain totally
> transparent as far as the Apache repository is concerned.
>
> In the present case we have no way of knowing which version of trunk has
> been merged into the branch. Also, the svn:mergeinfo property hasn’t
> been updated on the root directory, which will create trouble next time
> we update the branch to the latest trunk. Subversion will try to merge
> changes that have already been merged by Git and this will result into
> a lot of conflicts.
>

I am using the git-svn techniques prescribed by
http://wiki.apache.org/general/GitAtApache.

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