[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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