I have some questions regarding the status of the merge tracking functionality in subversion 1.6. Based on my understanding, it seems like svn has good “automatic” support for merging between branches in one direction, whereas cyclic/bidirectional merging requires a more complex “reintegrate” + “record only” merge procedure. I am wondering if this support also extends to scenarios with repeated merging between several parallel release branches.
Does svn handle arbitrary "directed acyclic" merging between several parallel branches, when merging is always conducted in the same direction (e.g. from old to newer release branch)? Does the “reintegrate” + “record only” merge procedure extend gracefully to scenarios with arbitrary cyclic/bidirectional merging between several parallel branches? Thanks in advance, Fredrik Orderud
