SVN Merge - Completely "theirs full" - Branch to trunk

Question

I want to merge my branch to trunk and basically want to over-write all the code in branch to the trunk..While receiving conflicts I kept doing "theirs full" for all the conflict; but still at the end it shows so many conflicts.

All I want is over-write complete branch on my trunk. Surely a possible way is to branch out from my branch but then my trunk becomes useless !

Also, while doing svn merge can I give an option so that for all conflicts it takes a particular value ( in this case Full-theirs ) and I dont have to type it always for all the conflicts.

Answer 1

Pass --accept=theirs-full to the svn merge command.

Answer 2

If you want:

• Merge branch to trunk
• For any conflicts use full file from branch
• Do it automatically

you have to

• Have clean Working Copy of /trunk
• Merge in the root of WC your branch to it: svn merge ^/branches/BRANCH
• Use accept option in order to always prefer branch's file: add --accept 'tf' to merge and get final form svn merge ^/branches/BRANCH --accept 'tf'