[cvsnt] Problem with Mergepoints

Harrison, Andrew andy.harrison at anite.com
Mon Feb 16 12:37:37 GMT 2004


Hi,

I'm having a problem with mergepoints. I'm not sure if it's something I'm
doing wrong, but CVS-NT isn't acting how I expected.

If I have two branches and create a new file on branch 1, and then merge
branch 1 into branch 2, then the new file is correctly created on branch 2.
Since the files was created after the branch was taken, there are two
different revisions of the file in the repository, one for each branch, but
they are identical. This is what I expected. However I would also expect the
revision in branch 2 to have a mergepoint in it saying it was merged from
the version in branch 1, but it doesn't. Is this the correct behaviour?
Because this mergepoint does not exist, the next time I try to merge branch
1 into branch 2 CVS attempts to merge the file again, even when no changes
have been mage in either branch. Since the null-delta patch this doesn't
actually create new a revision for text files, but it does create a conflict
in binary files.

Rgds,
Andy

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