On Apr 19, 2011, at 09:56, Daniel Walter wrote:

> svn merge appears to work with revision numbers but not symbolically with 
> tags.  Is this expected?

Tags are not symbols. Tags are directories. You can merge with directories if 
you want, provided you use their complete repository URL, or a valid path 
within your working copy (though it's unlikely you actually have your tags in 
your working copy).


> The merge happens twice if I use tags:
> svn merge tag1 tag2  --non-interactive
> 
> But when I find the revisions with svn info
> svn info tag1
> Last Changed Rev: 457
> 
> svn info tag2
> Last Changed Rev: 467
> 
> and then do the merge based on these revision numbers
> svn merge -r 457:467 trunk --non-interactive
> 
> the merge happens correctly

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