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Arthur Barrett wrote: >> First question is whether the start of the merge is documented in the >> RCS file. A bugid changeset in the simplest case is a range of >> revisions that has a start and an end. You say the merge point is >> stored in the RCS file, but as I understand merge points, that just >> identifies the end revision of the source branch and the target >> revision on the current branch (where the merge happened) -- it doesn't >> identify the start revision of the merged change set on the source >> branch. This can be expanded to several ranges with a start/end >> revision pair that belong to that one bugid. Does this all appear in >> the log output? > > OK - that's a good suggestion, but there are other solutions that would > not require coding a new feature into CVSNT (though that would be > ideal). I still think it would make sense to have start and end of a double j merge stored somewhat similar to a merge point. You say it's a rarely used feature, but a double j merge is exactly what Tony suggested for merging a branch back to its ancestor -- which I wouldn't call a rare or exotic situation. (Even though that is a special case of the double j merge, it still is one.) >> The other question is about the bugid. I think it would definitely be >> helpful to have the bugid stored together with the other merge >> information and be able to retrieve it later. > > It's stored in the RCS file same as the mergepoint, so it already is. Ah, good to know :) I need to start using bugids. So far we don't. > I've created bug id 5079 in our bugzilla to track this, but you could > also suggest it on the tortoisecvs newsgroup or buglist. Will do. >>> Do you want commit rights to the repo so you can amend the docbook? You >>> can either get a docbook editor (I can dig up the name of the one Tony >>> uses) or you can just use notepad for small changes (which is what I >>> do). >> >> [...] So yes, I'd like that (and the name of Tony's docbook editor). > > OK - I'll try and get that done in the next couple of days. If you > haven't heard from me or Tony by this time next week please ping me... Will do. Gerhard