no what i wanted to do was https://sites.google.com/a/praqma.net/howto/subversion/branching-strategies
im pretty sure this would solve my issues. *Jes Struck* Consultant Praqma A/S Tel:+45 22 71 82 46 Mail: j...@praqma.net web: www.praqma.net On 28 November 2011 11:24, Stephen Butler <sbut...@elego.de> wrote: > > On Nov 28, 2011, at 10:11 , jes Struck wrote: > > > Hej > > > I started to investigate the branching strategies of subversion. to > compare with Git, Mercurial and ClearCase. > These three tools have an opportunity to branch out in a developer branch from > which to deliver the trunk several times, so that such branches may be > seen as developers industry instead of features industry. In Subversion, > it seems that the second time you try to deliver the subversion dispose of any > changes you've ever made any page on this branch > > > By "deliver", I presume you mean a reintegrate-merge, like > > svn merge --reintegrate ^/branches/mydevbranch > > > > So that second time i deliver it tries to deliver changes from Both > Changeset A and B > > i would rather have it only took Changeset B? > > is this me that does not now how the correct way is to due it? > > > You can "revive" your branch (via the "svn merge --record-only" command) > after the first reintegration is committed to trunk (or wherever you copied > your developer branch from). This is described in the SVN Book at > > > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.branchmerge.advanced.html#svn.branchmerge.advanced.reintegratetwice > > > Tip: Your diagram shows only merges _from_ the developer branch. To > minimize merge conflicts, merge _to_ your developer branch early and often. > > > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.branchmerge.basicmerging.html#svn.branchemerge.basicmerging.stayinsync > > Regards, > Steve > > -- > Stephen Butler | Senior Consultant > elego Software Solutions GmbH > Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25 | 13355 Berlin | Germany > tel: +49 30 2345 8696 | mobile: +49 163 25 45 015 > fax: +49 30 2345 8695 | http://www.elegosoft.com > Geschäftsführer: Olaf Wagner | Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin > Amtsgericht Charlottenburg HRB 77719 | USt-IdNr: DE163214194 > > >