Merging

[Thalko]

Are there any tools that you provide for reporting purposes when doing merges. Frequently when attempting to merge a branch we would like to do some analysis to see how many files are able to be auto-merged and how many will require manual merging(in addition to what the files are) that way we can know the extent of resources we will need to put on the manual merge process. The data grid that shows you what this information when attempting to do a merge is not very friendly - not sortable, nor is its data exportable to something like Excel/access etc. for using reporting off of.

Another feature that would be helpful would be the option to exclude Manual merges in the merging process(without having to de-select every one individually), but to provide a report of those that were excluded after the merge for distribution to the development team as needed since the volume of manual merges and knowledge of how to merge the files manually might prevent the person doing the merge from being able to accomplish the task.

Are there any tools or possibly a temp table that is populated at merge time to query against when the merge occurs to extract this type of data? This would help us to project resource utilization and ensure merging goes more smoothly as right now it is somewhat less time-consuming.

[lbauer]

We don't have reporting tools for merges at the present. The kinds of reports you describe could be very useful, though.

We are working on improvements to the functionality of Merge Branches. I'll add a feature request for this enhancement.