RE: [random line of thought] Hiding svn:mergeinfo

It would completely break mergetracking for about a dozen reasons :(

I'll answer more detailed later, but this would just remove the
property everywhere.

And if you could hide it in a better way while still storing it in the
wc, you would always forget to commit your mergeinfo only changes.

Bert Huijben (Cell phone) From: Daniel Shahaf
Sent: woensdag 18 mei 2011 8:55
To: dev_at_subversion.apache.org
Subject: [random line of thought] Hiding svn:mergeinfo
Mike remarked that svn:mergeinfo should never have been user-visible...

So: what if we made svn_property_kind(NULL, SVN_PROP_MERGEINFO) return
a value other than svn_prop_regular_kind, at least when both server and
client were ≥1.7? Would that have any useful side-effects?

[I suspect it might, but want to hear others' thoughts before laying
out my own.]
Received on 2011-05-18 09:32:42 CEST