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On 06/28/2011 09:13 PM, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> Is there some tool (in the ports) to watch if changes done in one of SVN
> branches are also incorporated into other branches?

Since version 1.5 SVN records this information in the mergeinfo 
property, see [1] and [2].
Writing a script that reads this property shouldn't be too hard.

[1] 
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.branchmerge.basicmerging.html#svn.branchmerge.basicmerging.mergeinfo

[2] http://www.collab.net/community/subversion/articles/merge-info.html

Regards,
Simon