Re: Partially reintegrate changes

Stein Somers:
> I see some self-refenertial mergeinfo in our /trunk, after lots of
> merges to and from. Maybe I explicitly added it with a record-only in
> some state of confusion. But it doesn't scare me at all. It would only
> matter if you explicitly merged /trunk to /trunk. And then, as far as I
> can tell, it would only cause svn merge to do less than it does without
> the self-refenertial mergeinfo, and as far as I can tell a
> self-referential foward merge doesn't do anything anyway.

It does scare me a little. When I have self-referential mergeinfo, it causes problems with "svn log -g" (show merged revisions). It gets confused and shows me ALL revisions in the branch, from the time it was created. So the command takes forever, and returns way too much data.

Jacob
Received on 2010-02-18 19:43:00 CET