On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 08:49:03PM +0000, Mun Johl wrote: > Hi all, > > We're using SVN version 1.8.19 on Linux.
You should consider upgrading to 1.14.1, it has many important bug fixes and nice new features. > I was wondering if I execute an "svn merge -reintegrate" to reintegrate a > branch back to trunk, will SVN merge the logs from the various check-ins done > on the branch back into the trunk as well? Empirical data shows that it does > not; but I'm not sure if we didn't do something correctly during the > reintegration or if that is how SVN works. Although, I realize I can still > access the branch's logs for check-in information. Simply reading branch commit logs is how one would usually learn about the individual commits that were made on a branch, yes. A merge commit will contain all the changes from the branch squashed into a single commit, and it is up to the person who runs the merge command to write a new log message for this merge commit. Conceivably, one could include the log messages of all commits from the branch in a merge commit's log message. But that is redundant and not common practice.
