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On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 01:35:21PM -0700, Eric Gillespie wrote:
> "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:
> 
> > A major criticism of SVN is that it doesn't handle this stuff as well
> > as some of the other systems do. SVN doesn't "know" which patches have
> > been applied the way some of the other systems do.
> > 
> > Arguably, if the goal is to maximize the ease of merging things onto
> > branches, systems other than SVN may be better.
> 
> Merge-tracking is just about finished, and already being tested
> by CollabNet's customers and some groups at Google.  We've
> started discussing a 1.5 branch now, and I expect the release
> within 6 months (normally I'd say 3, but 1.5 is a monster of a
> release).  Subversion will have rock solid merge tracking long
> before NetBSD switches.

Is it compatible with SVK which afaik already tracks merges?

Pavel