Commits and merges on SVN subdirectories considered harmful?
问题 We have several large subprojects inside our main SVN project root. I commit and merge only my subproject when working with our release branches, mainly because it's faster. However, a colleague pointed out this reference to merging subdirectories in Version Control with Subversion (a.k.a "The SVN Book"): For long-lived release branches (as described in the section called “Common Branching Patterns”), perform merges only on the root of the branch, not on subdirectories. Unfortunately, this is