[Svnmerge] merging from branch to trunk and then to branch

Dustin J. Mitchell dustin at zmanda.com
Thu May 15 06:06:23 PDT 2008


On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 9:43 PM, JL <jeremyl at research.canon.com.au> wrote:
> When I commit these merges into the trunk I get a revision number. (eg,
> revision 52).   The problem is when I go back to my branch and use
> svnmerge to update the branch with the latest trunk changes, it sees
> revision 52 as a revision available for merging, and when it does the
> merge, it conflicts on all the binary files.  How do I indicate that
> revision 52 was actually a merge from the branch and therefore there is
> no need to merge it back to the branch?  I can 'block' it however this
> doesn't seem to be the right way of doing it.

--bidirectional is supposed to fix that.  Are you always using that
flag (even with the 'avail' subcommand)?

Dustin

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