version control - SVN: Track merges

Question

Is it possible in SVN 1.6 to track where a commit was merged. I'm especially interesting in UI based solution (Eclipse plugin will be great).

Answer 1

I once wrote a quite web-page that kind of did this. I can't give you the page, unfortunately, but I can give you an idea of what I did.

First our development model - all development made to trunk, revisions then get merged into various release branches for different versions of products.

I set up a web page with a column for each version and a row for each trunk revision. By running svn mergeinfo for each column, I got back the list of trunk revisions that had been merged in to that version.

So we ended up with something very similar to those feature comparison lists you get - a table showing a black dot for each version that contained the corresponding trunk commit.

Looked a bit like this:

rev   |  ver1  |  ver1.1  |  ver2  | ver2.1  |
200   |        |          |        |    X    |
198   |        |    X     |        |    X    |
177   |        |          |        |    X    |
176   |        |          |   X    |    X    |
157   |   X    |    X     |   X    |    X    |
146   |   X    |    X     |   X    |    X    |
122   |   X    |    X     |   X    |    X    |
075   |   X    |    X     |   X    |    X    |

This let us see exactly what each version contained (useful for testing), as well as highlighting if any revisions were merged into one place but not another.