To keep all may changes different from the main development I’ve created a subversion branch. Now I want to keep the branch up to date with changes from the main trunk.

Get all the history of this particular branch. 

` svn log –stop-on-copy

r421 | sstillwell | 2010-01-22 18:40:42 -0600 (Fri, 22 Jan 2010) | 1 line

merged changes from trunk to branch, 406:420 

r420 | sstillwell | 2010-01-22 18:30:52 -0600 (Fri, 22 Jan 2010) | 1 line

Still setting up the Sizing Tool Form 

r413 | sstillwell | 2010-01-15 12:51:25 -0600 (Fri, 15 Jan 2010) | 1 line

More changes to Sizing Tool 

r408 | sstillwell | 2010-01-06 17:22:55 -0600 (Wed, 06 Jan 2010) | 1 line

Merging Trunk into Sizingtool branch 

r406 | sstillwell | 2010-01-06 17:09:12 -0600 (Wed, 06 Jan 2010) | 1 line

Initial creation of Sizing Tool module 

r405 | sstillwell | 2010-01-06 16:25:39 -0600 (Wed, 06 Jan 2010) | 1 line

Creating a branch for the Sizingtool 

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From the command svn log --stop-on-copy we can see that the branch was created at version 405.

Merge updates from the main trunk to my branch 

Change directory to the top directory of your particular branch (e.g. application/branches/new-module-dev/)

Now take a dry run at the merge svn merge --dry-run -r 405:421 http://svn.example.com/repos/application/trunk/

Everything look OK? remove --dry-run and really apply them.

svn merge -r 405:421 http://svn.example.com/repos/application/trunk/

Remember! You’re only updating your local copy, you still have to commit these merged updates.

Code Strong!

Credits: http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Subversion+Tips+and+Tricks