Merging from a branch
After creating and working in a CVS branch for some time, you may want to merge
your changes from the branch into another branch, or into HEAD. To do this,
you will need to know:
- The name of the branch or version that contains your changes.
- The version from which the branch was created. This is the version name
that you supplied when branching.
To merge your changes:
- Ensure that the destination is loaded into your workspace. For example,
if you wish to merge your changes into HEAD, make sure the project is shared
with HEAD in your workspace. To do this, select the project and choose Replace
With > Another Branch or Version from the context menu. Then select
the branch to replace with.
- Select the project and choose Team > Merge.
- Enter the branch or version which contains the changes you want to merge.
- The merge dialog will try to guess an appropriate start point. If that fails,
enter the start point of the merge. This is the version from which the branch
was created. Click Finish.
- A CVS Merge synchronization will be added to the Synchronize view, showing
all differences between your workspace and the branch with the changes.
- Load all of the desired changes into the workspace. This may be accomplished
by either manually merging changes, or by choosing Update, Override
and Update, or Mark as Merged from the tree's context menu.
- After all desired changes are in the workspace, choose Team > Synchronize
with Repository. You may then commit all the changes to the repository.
Tip: If you don't know the start point of the merge, you can choose
to perform the merge directly into the workspace. This relies on the CVS server
to pick an appropriate start point. Because the merge is performed directly
into the workspace, CVS may introduce a text based conflict markup into the
file. This markup is typically hard to deal with so merging directly into the
workspace should only be done when necessary.
Merge actions
The actions in the merge editor complement the manual merge toolbar actions
that are available in the bottom half of the merge editor.
Merge
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Running this action will bring the changes into the file in
the workspace. Any conflicts that are not auto-mergeable will be skipped. |
Override and Update
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This action is enabled on files with conflicting changes. Running this
action will discard any local changes you have and replace the file with
the remote contents. |
Mark as Merged
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This action will remove the selected changes from the view. The changes
will only reappear if the remote state of the resource changes and the CVS
Merge Synchronization is refreshed. |
Tip: You can perform ongoing merges by pinning a CVS Merge Synchronization
in the Synchronize view. This will allow you to keep your workspace up-to-date
with the changes released to a different branch.
Team programming with CVS
Branches
Synchronizing with a CVS repository
Branching
Synchronizing with the repository
Updating
Committing
CVS
Merge wizard
CVS Merge Synchronization