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Revision: 4158
Author:   ptburba at gmail.com
Date:     Fri Nov  4 13:36:40 2011
Log:      * en/book/ch04-branching-and-merging.xml
   (svn.branchemerge.basicmerging.reintegrate): Footnote more 1.7's
    more permissive attitude towards shallow targets, but give fair
    warning of potential problems.


http://code.google.com/p/svnbook/source/detail?r=4158

Modified:
  /trunk/en/book/ch04-branching-and-merging.xml

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--- /trunk/en/book/ch04-branching-and-merging.xml	Fri Nov  4 13:08:56 2011
+++ /trunk/en/book/ch04-branching-and-merging.xml	Fri Nov  4 13:36:40 2011
@@ -978,7 +978,12 @@
          nature of most Subversion subcommand options.  It supports the
          use case described above, but has little applicability outside
          of that.  Because of this narrow focus, in addition to
-        requiring an up-to-date working copy with no mixed-revisions,
+        requiring an up-to-date working copy<footnote><para>Reintegrate
+        merges are allowed if the target is a shallow checkout (see
+        <xref linkend="svn.advanced.sparsedirs"/>) but you will see tree
+        conflicts if the diff to be applied effects paths that are
+        <quote>missing</quote> due to the sparse working copy.</para>
+        </footnote> with no mixed-revisions,
          it will not function in combination with most of the other
          <command>svn merge</command> options. You'll get an error if you
          use any non-global options but these: <option>--accept</option>,