[cvsnt] Re: Branch merging - this seems wrong...

Tony Hoyle tony.hoyle at march-hare.com
Tue Jun 6 18:51:09 BST 2006


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Tony Hoyle wrote:
> Because the merge has to take into account everything that happened from 
> the branchpoint you end up having to resolve possibly hundreds of 
> conflicts.  Even the cleverness of cvs merging isn't going to cope well 
> with a branch that's got bits of old and new code mixed.

btw. I get something like this merging the 2.5.x branch into the 2.6.x 
branch.. some features were backported so you get horrid conflicts sometimes.. 
last merge took 2 days to get right.  Luckily this is still a one way merge - 
I'd never merge 2.6 into 2.5 *shudder*

Tony



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