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Tony -- MergePoint is immutable now. Maybe you or one of the other more cvsnt.com types can incorporate those comments (I don't have much time anyway). James Neave wrote: > Hi, > > Well, I am also not the best man to ask about documentation and > explanations. > > But here's my 2p. > > Whereas I'm sure your doc is a good technical explanation of > mergepoints, I am not a cvs or source control expert. > > Maybe you could start with a simple explanation, mostly for the new > CVSNT user (me), about what it does. > > (Correct me if I'm wrong) > > --- > It ensures that changes that are made to a dev branch are only merged > once, even after subsequent merges using the same branch. > --- > > I think that's a good frame of reference from which to explain in more > detail how it works. > > I think a diagram wouldn't go amiss to, showing the mergepoint as a > forward-only sliding marker on the branch, red (don't merge) up he > branch and green (do merge) down the branch. > > It's a bloody good feature and certainly would have influenced my > decision when shopping for source control to replace VSS. > > Even though I chose it anyway... > > Jim. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Glen Starrett [mailto:grstarrett at cox.net] > Sent: 27 April 2005 17:15 > To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook > Subject: Re: [cvsnt] Re: When is the best time(s) to merge changes > intothemaintrunk? > > James Neave wrote: > >>Aha! >> >>So *THAT'S* what mergepoints do. >>I read about them on CVSNT.org and didn't really get the explanation. >> >>Why couldn't they have just said what you just said!? > > > What would you change on that page? I wrote the original copy awhile > back to try and explain it, but I never claimed to be a documentation > expert and am open to suggestion :) > > http://www.cvsnt.org/wiki/MergePoint > > >>So if I was using CVS Classic, lots of small merges would be insane? > > > Yes > > Regards, > -- Glen Starrett