I'm fairly new to svn and I'm trying to get my head around how svn handles branches and merging. I've done a lot of reading on this, I've been able to work my way through merging changes from TRUNK to a BRANCH but I still do not quite understand it. If someone could start by explaining what happens in this scenario that would help.
First, I used this command to see the differences between my BRANCH and TRUNK svn diff --summarize --old http://repo/proj/branches/1/ --new http://repo/proj/trunk/ Second, based on the summary, I merged differences from TRUNK into BRANCH and commited the BRANCH. Third, I re-ran the command to see if there were any changes I missed. svn diff --summarize --old http://repo/proj/branches/1/ --new http://repo/proj/trunk/ To my surprise it gave me the same summary. After merging the changes into the BRANCH and committing the changes, I expected there to be no changes. So why does it give me the same summary?
