[fdo-internals] SVN Repository Merge Issues

[Robert Bray]

All,

Shawn has been tinkering with this and has been able to successfully 
merge trunk. However it looks like we will not be able to merge the 
branches. You can see a preview of the merged repository here: 
http://test.osgeo.net/trac/fdo-merged/browser/.

Merging in SVN alters the revision numbers, which is why the branch 
merges do not work. Here is the summary from Shawn: "I've searched and 
spoken with a few people on subversion merges and consensus is, branches 
and tags are broken on projects that are being merged into another 
project, due to the fact that the tag/branch repository specific and 
don't translate to a new repository structure."

So it looks like we may need to have an OLD COLLECTION OF REPOSITORIES 
(3.2.x) and a NEW REPOSITORY (3.3.x and beyond). This is not ideal but I 
do not know what else to do at this point.

Thoughts and ideas welcome?

Bob