I've read both these release notes for SVN 1.8 and this question concerning reintegration of a branch with SVN 1.8.
My questions, which I couldn't find an answer to, is the following:
Is there any difference between choosing
all revisions
specific range
together with an empty boxin the Tortoise Merge-Dialogue when reintegrating a branch into the trunk?
Does Turtoise in either case use an automatic merge with merge-tracking? How can I verify that?
According to the documentation, checking "all revisions" is the same as checking "specific range" and leaving an empty box. In both cases, an automatic merge is used:
If you leave the range of revisions empty or have the radio button all revisions checked, then Subversion merges all not-yet merged revisions. This is known as a reintegrate or automatic merge.