How do I figure out what was merged into my branch and when

Question

I've inherited a Subversion repository that is a bit of a mess. I am on a single branch and am trying to figure out when the changeslists from a different branch were merged it. What's the best way to go about this?

In subclipse, on the History tab, each revision has a window that shows Action, Affected paths, and Description. Some of these Descriptions are like "from /BLAHBLAH/branches/integration/config/log4j.xml". I've been using them as clues that a merge was in progress, but I've seen check-ins with comments like "merge from integration(1766) to feature-1798" that suggest a merge was being done but I see no tell-tale "from /BLAHBLAH/branches/integration/config/log4j.xml".

I am at a loss for figuring out what commits represent merges from one branch to another. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Click on the drop-down menu in the History view and check the item "Include Merged Revisions". This will cause each revision from your branch that committed a merge to be an expandable tree that show the revisions that were merged in that commit.