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Re: merging branch to HEAD when branch contains partly trunk changes alr
From: |
Pierre Asselin |
Subject: |
Re: merging branch to HEAD when branch contains partly trunk changes already |
Date: |
Fri, 8 Jul 2005 23:41:52 +0000 (UTC) |
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tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (NetBSD/2.0 (i386)) |
HK <address@hidden> wrote:
> Suppose the following situation.
> +-1.25.2 .. -- 1.25.2.2 -- 1.25.2.5
> | ^
> | |merge in
> 1.25 -- ... -- 1.27 -- ... -- 1.31
> At 1.25 I created a branch.
> Later I merged the changes between 1.25 and 1.27
> into the branch at 1.25.2.2 to have minor updates
> of the main trunk also in the branch.
> Now I want to merge the branch back into the trunk.
If I remember correctly, the correct merge would be "-j 1.27 -j
1.25.2.5" (or the equivalent with instead of hard revision numbers).
> I tried a straighforward merge of the
> tip of the branch with the tip of the trunk
> and get only minor conflicts.
Yeah, sometimes that works. Other times I get bogus conflicts with
the same text on both sides of the conflict. I just clean those
up by hand.
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