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Detlef Marschall wrote: > > Both came from HEAD, B1 from "rev. 1.3" and B2 from "rev. 1.8". Sorry > for confusion. All branches came from HEAD. > There's no logical connection between a branch based on revision 1.3 and a branch based on revision 1.8 - they may be completely different streams of development, or they may be quite similar.. it's not something you can solve with mergepoints. However this isn't really a problem. >>After the first merge you will have a mergepoint and it'll work normally. > > > That's right, but is not acceptable in our development. We must then use > the "commit --> merge with TAG and Branch --> TAG" way. Mergepoints are > very useful, but in that case they are to complicated and cause more > problems as they solved. You stated that you're merging HEAD->B1 then B1->B2 - mergepoints will handle this well. The first merge B1->B2 will be the hardest of course, but once that is done it'll work well (just standard promotion levels, which is done by a lot of people). Tony