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Re: SVN Client Tools that make use of svn:mergeinfo?

From: Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 16:37:11 -0500

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 4:24 PM, John Niven <jniven_at_bravurasolutions.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mark Phippard [mailto:markphip_at_gmail.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, 4 November 2008 10:07
>> To: John Niven
>> Cc: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
>> Subject: Re: SVN Client Tools that make use of svn:mergeinfo?
>>
>> >
>> > You could take a look at Trac's RevTreePlugin
>> > (http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/RevtreePlugin) - however it "...shows
>> > branch cloning/tagging operations, and _can_be_extended_ to render
>> > other kinds of operations such as merging" (my _emphasis_)
>> so it may need some hacking. If Trac would be overkill (e.g.
>> you already have an issue tracker) you could possibly adapt
>> the plugin's source for your own needs?
>>
>> Can you point to any public Trac sites that use that plugin?
>> I've tried in vain to find one and have never found one.
>>
>> We are working on this in Subclipse and will release it soon.
>> Getting the merge information is currently too slow though.
>
>
> I've not found one either; I have set it up locally, however, and it was fairly straightforward (basically SVN 1.5 + Python + Trac
> + a few Python libraries). I do tend to think it's overkill, though, in non-Trac environments. We use JIRA at work and there's
> no way I'd bother promoting a Trac-solution just for a graph that is only marginally more useful than TortoiseSVN's graph
> (we've only recently moved to SVN 1.5 so merge-tracving is still a mystery to many users).
>
> Since we also use Subclipse I'm very interested in your work; is it stable enough for interested parties (like me!) to test?

Yes. You'd have to build it yourself though. I will be packaging it
pretty soon, so best to just wait. It is similar to TortoiseSVN in
that it builds a local cache so that performance is not awful. Of
course building the cache is fairly slow.

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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