Retrieval of mergeinfo unsupported

[gigiskhan]

Hi dears,
I am using SVN 1.4.4
and tortoise 1.5.0.
I want to merge a branch to the trunk, i select merge reintegrate a branch, but tortoise tells me:

[JNiven]

Hi gigiskhan

You could use a 1.4 client.

Cheers
John
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[andyl]

Merge tracking (which you're using in this example) requires a 1.5 or later server.

[gigiskhan]

thank you for your help. I installed tortoise 1.4.4, and of course, it works better, even if I can not find merge tracking option.

But Could someone explain me where to find information about this new feature. What is the difference between merging a branch in the trunk the old way and using merge tracking. Would this second one merge the braanch and delete it from the repository?

And also how to say that my post is solved?

[JNiven]

Hi gigiskhan

Merge tracking is new with SVN 1.5 - two good places to start for information are the SVN website, and in particular the release notes for 1.5 (http://subversion.tigris.org/svn_1.5_releasenotes.html#merge-tracking) and the CollabNet website (http://merge-tracking.open.collab.net/).

With earlier versions of SVN you'd need to remember which revisions you had already merged, and avoid merging them again. With 1.5 you can simply "repeat" a merge, and the revisions that have already been merged will be skipped.

I don't know how to mark the thread as resolved - are you able to edit the original post's subject?

Cheers
John
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John Niven