Thanks a lot! Actually I noticed the merge command in the Explorer context menu 
only after reading your message:-), I always used to merge through the log 
viewer.

Best wishes,

Oleg.

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Borho <st...@borho.org>
To: Олег Тазетдинов <ton1...@mail.ru>
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:48:02 -0600
Subject: Re: [thg] Merge in TortoiseHg

> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Олег Тазетдинов <ton1...@mail.ru> wrote:
> > Currently thg enables 'Merge with' context menu in log window only when two 
> > heads are available.
> > Sometimes this is too restrictive. Suppose we have two branches. As soon as 
> > we merge them we will get a single head. But it is quite common I think to 
> > merge any two revisions from those branches and get a new head after a 
> > commit.
> > This is especially useful for long-living named branches when most of the 
> > merges is from, say, branch B to branch A but occasionally the two branches 
> > need to get in synch, so a merge is necessary that should be committed to 
> > both branches.
> > Mercurial does not prohibit this kind of operation, any two revisitions can 
> > be merged as far as they are not direct ancestor  and child.
> 
> I think I'll remove the two head check in the changelog browser.  That
> will allow you to merge any two arbitrary revisions.  Changes to the
> shell context menu will have to wait for the next release.
> 
> --
> Steve
> 


------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA
-OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise
-Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation
-Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD
http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H
_______________________________________________
Tortoisehg-discuss mailing list
Tortoisehg-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-discuss

Reply via email to