Getting started with bzr-svn (was Re: bzr-svn and subversion revisions)

[Matt Doran]

Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
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> John Szakmeister wrote:
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>> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Jelmer Vernooij<jelmer at vernstok.nl>
>> wrote: [snip]
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>>> Newer versions of bzr-svn won't change the mainline history in
>>> Subversion by default. Instead, they'll print an error when you
>>> would be about to do so and require you to set a configuration
>>> variable ("append_revisions_only").
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>> *Sweet!*  Does this mean that we can repeatedly merge from the
>> mainline, and push with no ill effects?  If so, that's really nice.
>>
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> No, if you repeatedly merge from the mainline you will just get an
> error trying to push your changes back to mainline unless you set this
> option.
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> If you don't want to change what is on the mainline, don't merge it
> in. Rather, merge feature branches into the mainline.
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It's this type of stuff that scares me off.   For me, it raises more 
questions than it answers.   It would be great to have some worked 
examples of various scenarios to give newbies somewhere to start.

-- Matt
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