[Bf-committers] Advice on fixing bad merges (Shaders GSoC)

[Mitchell Stokes]

Hello devs,

I'm looking for a bit of advice. A couple of days ago, my mentor and I
realized that some of the merges earlier in the project were done poorly,
which is now starting to cause some issues. I'm thinking the best way to
resolve this is to diff against the trunk and clean up the resulting diff to
only have my changes. Then, from there, rebranch from trunk and apply the
diff to the new branch. Thoughts on this?

Also, another thing to consider: I believe newer versions of SVN are much
better at merging. For example, I don't think a revision range needs to be
specified (this is where problems showed up in my branch). I know there was
some talk about upgrading to a newer version of Subversion (1.4.3 is quite
ancient). Is anything happening to this end?

Thank you,
Mitchell Stokes (Moguri)