# git & svn related merge questions ...

1 messages from 2008-06-17 to 2008-06-17. Participants: Saurabh Raje.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/13998

## Saurabh Raje, 2008-06-17 11:28

Subject: git & svn related merge questions ...
Message-ID: <loom.20080617T112816-101@post.gmane.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/loom.20080617T112816-101%40post.gmane.org

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Hi All,

I have a question regarding 3-way merge ...

Here's how the subversion commits had happened
- Initially we had 'trunk' at revision T1
- We made a 'branch' (svn cp) at revision B1 (T1 -> B1)
(...development continues in trunk & branch...)
- We merge (svn merge) changes T2 - T1 in branch B2 and resolve all the
conflicts (if any) committing revision B3
(...development continues in trunk...)

After this I imported the entire subversion repository in Git (git-svn clone) &
then tried to merge the 'branch' (@B3) in 'trunk' (@T3).

The problem here is that the common ancestor is considered as T1 for 'trunk' &
branch' & not T2 which causes many more merge conflicts which should not have
been there ... In subversion flow we used to merge diff of branch@B3 and
trunk@T2 in trunk to achieve the result with minimum conflicts.

Any idea of how to fix this?

I just started using Git. It is a fantastic piece of software.
Thank you all.

Regards,

Saurabh Raje 

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