I'd like to merge all the changes that took place between rev 10 & the HEAD rev on http://url-of-branch-a and apply them to http://url-of-branch-b.
Something like...
svn merge -r 10:HEAD http://url-of-branch-a
Is this possible? If so, what is the syntax?
I am running the SVN client from the unix command line. The SVN client version is 1.4
EDIT: Yes, my specific solution was...
- change directory to the location of my working copy that wants to receive the changes (branch-b)
- svn merge -r 10:HEAD http://url-of-branch-a
This merges the changes from 'branch-a' into 'branch-b'
Checkout URL A.
Use SVN merge to merge URL B to your working copy of A.
Commit A.
Or vice versa of course :)
The process is as follows:
- Establish a working copy of branch B (
svn checkout http://branch-b
)
- Merge changes from branch A into working copy of B (
svn merge -r 10:HEAD http://branch-a .
)
- Commit (after resolving conflicts) working copy B to branch b (
svn commit
)
Check the man page (help file) for svn merge semantics. It shows you that svn merge always dumps the results into a working copy.
Check out the SVNBook for all the details.
Mostly confuse merge
by trying to do in svn repo, we can not directly merge to svn repo, we can merge to working copy of local machine as follows:
Best Practice : Merge In , Merge Out.