Tips on Subversion merging

  • Watch out your svn server version. Version < 1.5 does not have –reintegrate option.
  • Your merging process may failed in the middle. Hint: shitty connection. When this happen, solve all conflict first before retry merging.
  • You CAN retry merging. See above point.
  • Prepare some coffee, tea, beer, vitamin, or <insert your power source here> since conflicts are common.