Merge tracking in 1.5

As I mentioned in my previous post, the Subversion project has identified many requirements based on input from both the open source community and from the enterprise data collected by CollabNet from its customers. The requirements as well as the functional and design specifications are available on the Subversion project site. Subversion’s upcoming 1.5 release [...]

Introducing Merge Tracking

Any branching scheme requires the consideration of merging. Up until now, Subversion facilitates merges but does not record them as such in its history information. That is, Subversion does not automatically record, or track, what change sets have been merged where and what revisions were created as a result of merging.  To work around the [...]