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Merging Issues


From: Dhruva B. Reddy
Subject: Merging Issues
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:08:37 -0700 (PDT)

We are doing development on a branch which has been around for a while,
and I was required to merge in changes from the trunk a few times.

The first time I did this, I did the following (in a sandbox from the
branch):

    cvs up -j HEAD

and then applied a tag as recommended by the documentation.  This merge
went as expected (changes made on the trunk were now available in the
branch, along with the changes checked into the branch).

A few days ago I merged changes from the trunk again.  I could have
sworn I did it like this (again, in a sandbox from the branch):

    cvs up -j <tag created after last merge> -j HEAD

This resulted in the loss of *all* changes made on the branch (i.e.,
they were overridden by the versions on the trunk).

Can anyone tell me what could have caused this (what kind of human
error, etc.) and how to prevent from happening again?

Thanks,
Dhruva


                
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