Hi Stefan, > -----Original Message----- > 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.
[Mun] I will Google for release notes to see what new features have been added and if anything special is required to bring our repo up to 1.14.1 compatibility. But that sounds like a good idea. > > 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. [Mun] Thank you for the confirmation; that's kind of what I thought but I feel more comfortable now. Best regards, -- Mun
