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mergeinfo property and renamed files

From: Frederic Gilles <fgilles_at_index-education.fr>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 16:12:13 +0100

Hello,
 
Since we have migrated from SVN 1.4 to SVN 1.5, we have a strange and
annoying behaviour concerning the mergeinfo property.
 
First we have a trunk and a release branch.
 
1. When we rename a file on the trunk, which does not exist on the
branch, it creates an empty mergeinfo property on that file.
 
2. When we rename a file on the trunk, which exists on the branch, it
creates a mergeinfo property with the same value as its parent
directory.
 
3. When we merge the modifications made on the branch to the trunk, it
modifies the mergeinfo property for all the files which have an empty
mergeinfo property. In our case, these are the new files that we renamed
on (1).
 
I 'd think that the expected behaviour is that it does not create
mergeinfo property only by renaming files. And the mergeinfo property
should not be modified on single files or on directories except for the
root directory when we do a merge.
 
The third point is very annoying because when a user merges a simple
release concerning a few files, he gets a huge list of files that he did
not modify and whose properties have changed during the merge. And this
list is growing up at each merge.
 
Is it a bug ? If so, will it be fixed soon ?
 
Regards,
Frederic GILLES

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