[Svnmerge] How does SVN handle merging renamed / moved filesfrom "branches"

Eric B. ebenze at hotmail.com
Tue Feb 5 20:21:54 PST 2008


> At Linkedin we switched form CVS to SVN recently. I would say SVN is
> definitely better for us and for sure better than CVS.
> We have lot (20+) of actives branches, with several small teams working in
> parallel using Agile/Xp methodology and the cost of branching/tagging in 
> SVN
> is negleglible (was a pain in CVS)
> We are using SVN 1.4. We decided not to use svnmerge.py and instead 
> waiting
> for 1.5
> We do a lot of re factoring and merging - so we hit the renamed/moved 
> files
> problem often

How do you do any of your merging and refactoring if you aren't using 
svnmerge.py?  I'll be honest; right now, CVS is my limiting issue when 
refactoring / renaming files and forces me to think a couple of times before 
doing it.

Thanks,

Eric 






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