[cvsnt] RE: branches and merging

Prochazka, Jan Jan.Prochazka at brooks.com
Tue Nov 16 22:21:41 GMT 2004


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> It's recording a real change - that the branch has been merged.

Unfortuantely cvs does also merge if the file was not changed and the problem does occur even with one branch and merging back and forth.
If the situation is:

 ----  
|1.1 | 
 ---- 
  |
 ------
| br1  |    -------
|1.1.1 | - |1.1.1.1|
 ------     -------

which is created by command "cvs update -j HEAD" in branch br1
and then somebody in in HEAD sandbox issue the command

"cvs update -j br1"

cvs creates this:

 ----      ----
|1.1 | -  |1.2 |
 ----      ----
  |
 ------
| br1  |    -------
|1.1.1 | - |1.1.1.1|
 ------     -------

and consequently the following "cvs update -j HEAD" in branch br1
adds version 1.1.1.2 and it's never going to stop.


Jan



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