svn copy, branch & mergeinfo

Hi,

I've just started using the merge feature of svn and I have a question about branching

1) I create a branch (e.g. svn copy trunk_at_1234 branches/3.5)
2) I merge a bug fix from trunk to branch

Using a client like svn or tortoise I see which revisions have already been merged.
What I would expect is to see revisions 1-1234 marked as been merged.

So my question is:

should "svn copy" add to the destination a merge info property (in this case
/trunk:1-1234)?

Given that copies and branches are just the same thing, I don't think that the answer should be
"yes, always", but maybe a flag to "svn copy" could do.

I've tried to manually change the property and it did the job.

I know that if I merge and revision in 1-1234 then nothing happens, but still the user would benefit
from this extra piece of information.

Has this already been discussed? If yes, I apologise, my google search did not produce much on the
topic.

Andrea

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Received on 2009-07-05 12:19:47 CEST