Public Git repo

[Mike Alexander]

--On January 3, 2011 10:13:34 AM -0800 Phil Longstaff 
<plongstaff at rogers.com> wrote:

>> Compared to SVN: topic/feature/bugfix branches. For example look at
>> [2] and notice how each bug I’ve worked on has been in a separate
>> Git branch. That history has been squished flat by SVN, but Git
>> remembers the branchy development.
>
> Is remembering the 'branchy development' really a requirement here?
> SVN certainly supports feature and bugfix branches, and we've
> certainly used it that way.  It does have a problem that you cannot
> really merge multiple times, so you have to worry about multiple
> merges from a branch back to trunk.
>
> [Phil] Is this still true with SVN 1.5 and 1.6.  I know that
> somewhere in there,  they improved merging and how merges were
> recorded, so these problems might have  gone away.

Is this what is described at 
<http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn-book.html#svn.branchmerge.advanced.reintegratetwice>?

            Mike