Using the svnmerge.py tool it is possible to merge between branches, up and down. It is hard to find the details for doing this. Hopefully, v1.5 will have a neat method for doing this without using svnmerge.py - details requested!
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It looks like you're asking about 1.5 merge tracking. Here's a quick overview for doing merges to/from trunk (or another branch): http://blog.red-bean.com/sussman/?p=92
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2008-09-16 01:22:45
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With svnmerge.py, you initialize both branches (when going in one direction, you only need to initialize one of the branches). Then merge using the -b (For bidirectional flag). Here is a summary starting from branch one to branch two. $REPO is the protocol and path to your repository.
svn copy $REPO/branches/one $REPO/branches/two \
-m "Creating branch two from branch one."
svn checkout branches/one one
svn checkout branches/two twocd one svnmerge init ../two
cd ../two
svnmerge init ../one
You may now edit both branches. Changes from one to two can be merged by:
cd two
svnmerge merge -b -S one
svn commit -F svnmerge-commit-message.txt
Conversely, changes from two to one can be merge by:
cd one
svnmerge merge -b -S two
svn commit -F svnmerge-commit-message.txt
Be sure to note the -b flag!