How can I use merging with the latest version of Tortoise SVN? I am an old ClearCase guy and I never understood him. When I merge the branch back into the trunk, I simply select the revision range, and then leave the version numbers empty and start spilling out all the types of files that it merges. Basically it is like adding and changing everything.
The funny thing is that when the merge is done, the only files that are actually affected are the files that I updated, so it seems that everything is working fine (and after a few tests this seems to be the case). I'm just afraid of everything that spits out of the merger journal, it does not give me any indication of what is actually happening.
Should I put something in the version number field? TortoiseSVN seems to indicate that this is not needed.
So it seems that I miss the fact that the "Range of corrections" should not be empty. To get functionality similar to the one I'm used to, I needed to insert the revision that created the HEAD branch. Therefore, if my branch was created in the 289 editor, I had to put the 289-HEAD in the revision to merge the field, and the results would be as expected.
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