Re: Union of Multiple Branches

2010-01-08 Thread Johan Corveleyn
Just throwing in my 2 cents: another way to create such "partial branches" is by performing an "svn copy" with multiple sources directories (all the ones you want in your branch), all in one commit directly on the repository. That way, you don't have to delete anything afterwards (you have only bra

Re: Union of Multiple Branches

2010-01-07 Thread Mattius McLaughlin
Rob van Oostrum wrote: "Cleaning up" your branches is a bad idea. It just creates that much more administrative overhead. Not to mention having to tiptoe around the deletions when merging the branch back to trunk, which will affect merge tracking's performance. What I would do instead is leve

Re: Union of Multiple Branches

2010-01-06 Thread Rob van Oostrum
"Cleaning up" your branches is a bad idea. It just creates that much more administrative overhead. Not to mention having to tiptoe around the deletions when merging the branch back to trunk, which will affect merge tracking's performance. What I would do instead is leverage sparse checkouts to onl

Re: Union of Multiple Branches

2010-01-06 Thread BRM
- Original Message > I understand this is not common workflow, but I'd like to know if there is a > simple way to accomplish this goal before I start scripting a solution. > > Some background: one of the requirements for my organization moving to > subversion was the ability to create

Union of Multiple Branches

2010-01-06 Thread Mattius McLaughlin
Hi All, I understand this is not common workflow, but I'd like to know if there is a simple way to accomplish this goal before I start scripting a solution. Some background: one of the requirements for my organization moving to subversion was the ability to create tags/branches that contai