Re: [merge-tracking] replicating commits

Giovanni Bajo wrote:
> The problem is that you can't simply exclude the author: you'd want to see
> the original authors of the merged changes to appear instead.

You are conflating two different levels of information. At the repository
level, there is *one* author of the merge (the person actually performing the
merge). At the merge history level, you want to be able to see original authors.

In essence, the merge history needs to contain enough information to retrieve
the matching repository history, and nothing more. There is no reason to
duplicate the information from the repository (which is not going anywhere). As
long as the merge source (path and revision) is available as properties, blame
and log can be extended later to follow this information backwards past the
merge. This is true even if the initial pass at merge tracking merely does what
SVK already does: automate repeated merges without conflict.

John

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