Re: branches and merging

2006-06-18 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Michael Gerz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Georg Baum wrote: | | > That is the same with the other procedure. The key is the | > revision. You can't do anything wrong with both | > methods if that one is right. With your method you need to remember | > it somewhere, with the one described on the

Re: branches and merging

2006-06-15 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Peter Kümmel wrote: Georg Baum wrote: So if you want to be nice, merge everything up to the revision of your changes. Otherwise, don't merge anything. Oh, I see, it would have been better to send patches to Abdel instead of checking in some stuff, when I don't wanna a complete merge by mysel

Re: branches and merging

2006-06-15 Thread Peter Kümmel
Georg Baum wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 15. Juni 2006 13:39 schrieb Peter Kümmel: > >> I think the only branches I have to care about is my own and trunk. >> And when a update someone other branch it is just niceness to the >> owner of this branch, because he is responsible for his branch. > > I agree

Re: branches and merging

2006-06-15 Thread Georg Baum
Am Donnerstag, 15. Juni 2006 13:39 schrieb Peter Kümmel: > I think the only branches I have to care about is my own and trunk. > And when a update someone other branch it is just niceness to the > owner of this branch, because he is responsible for his branch. I agree 100%. My point however is th

Re: branches and merging

2006-06-15 Thread Peter Kümmel
Georg Baum wrote: > I just wanted to do Abdel a favour and merged my latest changes to his > branch. I discovered that it already included Peters latest changes, but > e.g. not the latest scons work by Bo. > That makes working with branches more difficult than it should be, so > please follow th

Re: branches and merging

2006-06-15 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Michael Gerz wrote: Georg Baum wrote: That is the same with the other procedure. The key is the revision. You can't do anything wrong with both methods if that one is right. With your method you need to remember it somewhere, with the one described on the wiki you can get it from svn. Mos

Re: branches and merging

2006-06-15 Thread Michael Gerz
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: I use TortoiseSVN merging capability: 1) In the trunk revision history I select the oldest non merged commit and those upward. But I stop my slection before a revision that I feel is problematic. 2) I merge the selected commits. This is "Merge step 1" 3) I select a

Re: branches and merging

2006-06-15 Thread Michael Gerz
Georg Baum wrote: That is the same with the other procedure. The key is the revision. You can't do anything wrong with both methods if that one is right. With your method you need to remember it somewhere, with the one described on the wiki you can get it from svn. Most important: Merging

Re: branches and merging

2006-06-15 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Michael Gerz wrote: Abdel, what is your approach? We really have to make sure that our branch experiment does not end in a massacre! I use TortoiseSVN merging capability: 1) In the trunk revision history I select the oldest non merged commit and those upward. But I stop my slection before a

Re: branches and merging

2006-06-15 Thread Georg Baum
Am Donnerstag, 15. Juni 2006 10:22 schrieb Michael Gerz: > Georg Baum wrote: > > >If you merge something to a branch that is intended to follow the trunk, > >merge everything up to the desired revision, and not only parts of it. > > > >If you don't know how to do that: One possible way is explai

Re: branches and merging

2006-06-15 Thread Michael Gerz
Georg Baum wrote: If you merge something to a branch that is intended to follow the trunk, merge everything up to the desired revision, and not only parts of it. If you don't know how to do that: One possible way is explained at http://wiki.lyx.org/devel/pmwiki.php/DevelTips/Branches I fol

Re: branches and merging

2006-06-14 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Georg Baum wrote: I just wanted to do Abdel a favour Thanks ;-) and merged my latest changes to his branch. I discovered that it already included Peters latest changes, but e.g. not the latest scons work by Bo. Actually, your changes and Peter's changes were more than simple merge because

Re: branches and merging

2006-06-14 Thread Georg Baum
Am Mittwoch, 14. Juni 2006 21:24 schrieb Bo Peng: > I think Peter voluntarily applied his patched to the branch since they > are working on similar things, that does not mean it is a good idea to > depart further and further away from trunk though. I know that Peter did that with good intentions.

Re: branches and merging

2006-06-14 Thread Bo Peng
On 6/14/06, Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just wanted to do Abdel a favour and merged my latest changes to his branch. I discovered that it already included Peters latest changes, but e.g. not the latest scons work by Bo. I think Peter voluntarily applied his patched to the branch sin

branches and merging

2006-06-14 Thread Georg Baum
I just wanted to do Abdel a favour and merged my latest changes to his branch. I discovered that it already included Peters latest changes, but e.g. not the latest scons work by Bo. That makes working with branches more difficult than it should be, so please follow this simple rule: If you merg