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> David Hauck wrote: > > > BTW, the symmetric result of the two-branch mergepoint example > you describe > > below isn't clear to me (as I believe Gerhard is also questioning). This > > isn't something that I came across in the documentation, but > perhaps this > > side effect is explicitly described somewhere else? > > > It's actually rare to merge bidirectionally... branches normally have a > heirarchy, so you wouldn't want to merge in reverse. Right, we *rarely* do this, which is why I was curious about the bidirectional semantic of mergepoints. > The whole bidirectional equivalence thing was put in a couple of years > back by someone who badly needed it... I've done a great many merges > since and it's never merged the wrong code or missed anything, so it > does its job... Very cool. -David > Tony > _______________________________________________ > cvsnt mailing list > cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook > http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt https://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/en.asp#downcvs