Re: can of worms: custom props in our tree?

Greg Noel <GregNoel@tigris.org> writes:

> On Wednesday, Nov 5, 2003, at 20:10 US/Pacific, Chia-liang Kao wrote:
>
>> The question was if it's appropriate for me to have a 'svk:merge'
>> dir_prop to [public] '/trunk'. ... currently the merge info has to
>> be set on the anchor of branching.
>
> I'm probably asking the wrong question, but why is it necessary to put
> this information in the public repository instead of the local
> repository?

[I don't know anything about svk's design or implementation.]

When there are more than two repositories involved then storing
svn:merge at the merge destination rather than the merge source is the
only way to get the information distributed.

> And if it's in the public repository, what if two (or
> more) people want to use svk to check in at the same point?

They would be using repositories with separate UIDs, and the UID is
stored in svk:merge.

-- 
Philip Martin
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