OK, I give up.
I'll just have to report this as an issue and see if I can get a response
that way.
Mark Cooper
Mark Cooper
17/03/2003 14:47
To: "Mark Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
cc:
Subject: Re: Branch Merging Behaviour
Is this question not even worthy of the group?
Having once again perused the archives I have found this mentioned a few
times, but surprisingly not a single response (not even to tell the
question poser to RTFM!), not even from the ever entertaining Mr.
Jones.....
Mark Cooper
"Mark Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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17/03/2003 10:11
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:
Subject: Branch Merging Behaviour
We have recently noticed a difference in the way that a merge works
between two branches and between a branch and the main trunk.
Consider the following:
branch taken from trunk
work proceeds
some files removed from trunk (head)
new branch taken from trunk
working copy updated to new branch
first branch merged into new branch
What appears to be happening under this scenario is that the files that
were removed from the trunk but which still exist in the early branch are
re-added into the new branch, then when in its turn the new branch is
merged back into the trunk, the files are re-added to the trunk. This has
caused us a couple of headaches wondering why removed files kept
mysteriously re-appearing on the trunk.
This does not occur when doing a merge of a branch into a working copy of
the the trunk (head revisions).
Is this behaviour correct?
I've searched through previous mailing list archives and issue/bug
reports, but can't find any reference to this. The manual is particularly
obscure about the subject.
Mark Cooper
Reuse Manager
Microlise Limited
http://www.microlise.co.uk
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