[Scummvm-devel] SVN branch merging: Use "svn merge", not svnmerge.py

Travis Howell kirben at optusnet.com.au
Sat Jul 18 06:59:12 CEST 2009


Max Horn wrote:
> I just noticed that some of our SVN branches now use SVN's "svn merge"  
> command (available in this form since 1.5) to merge branches; but some  
> still use svnmerge.py (esp. Kirben seems to still use it ;).
> 
> It would be better if we used "svn merge" everywhere. There is a  
> conversion tool for that: <http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/contrib/client-side/svnmerge/svnmerge-migrate-history.py 
>  >. The development of "svnmerge.py has been stopped, I think.
> 
> Refer to the SVN book for details on its branch merging features: <http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.branchmerge.html>

The guidelines ( at 
http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Summer_of_Code/Students_Guidelines ) 
for GSoC students on the wiki, still mention the svnmerge.py script, at 
the recommended SVN merge method.




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