On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 14:20, Bob Archer <bob.arc...@amsi.com> wrote: > >> You're describing a normal usage of merging. >> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.branchmerge.html >> >> You don't want to redo all those commit messages, you want the merge >> to be aware of the history behind everything that's been done (which, >> if you're using 1.5 or later, is taken care of), so that svn log can >> trace back & all those messages fall right in line. > > Really... I didn't know this happened. If you look at the log of trunk where > you have merged in from branch won't it only show the merge as a single rev > with the message you made in the merge commit. How will you be able to trace > the log back through the changes made in branch?
I thought it did, maybe I'm misremembering. It's been ages since I've done a merge.