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Andreas Krey wrote: >> I really think that both approaches (Tony Hoyle's comments about merge >> points and our need to have temporary development branches that stay in >> sync with the main development branch) converge in my suggestion to only >> merge from A to B, and after the final merge from A to B, /copy/ B to A. > > When we're going to abandon B afterwards this is a valid workaround > (and the reason for that is the symmetry mentioned above). That was my point (end of life for the branch). > Continuing to merging from A to B, however, will lead to false conflicts, > because cvsnt doesn't know that everything from B is also in A and will > merge it right back into B. Just start a new branch at that point. Gerhard