[Svnmerge] Help with somewhat complex branch synchronization strategy

[MrR08040]

On 2/28/07, Raman Gupta <rocketraman at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> MrR08040 wrote:
> > Imagine a branch called /A that is branched as /B.  No new changes are
> > made to either /A or /B.  Then /B is branched as /C.  Again no new
> > changes are made to either /A, /B or /C.
> >
> > I'd like to do the following:
> >
> > A <-> B (keep A & B sync'ed with each other)
> > A <-> C (keep A & C sync'ed with each other)
> > B  -> C (keep C     sync'ed with only B)
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > I wasn't expecting the last line to be printed.  I was expecting
> > nothing to be printed like the other "svn avail" commands before it.
> >
> > My question: Can svnmerge be used to do what I want to do?  If so, how
> > do I do it correctly?
>
> Svnmerge doesn't handle this use case without manual intervention on
> your part. The reason is that svnmerge doesn't currently have true
> graph merge handling (I would call it transitive merging but there was
> some confusion about the meaning of that on another thread).
>
> In your use case, it will treat any revisions in C that came from B as
> new revisions for A _even if those revisions on B came from A
> originally_, most likely resulting in conflicts.

OK, that's what I thought.  Thanks so much for the response!