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Re: Is it safe to remove deleted and no longer used branches from the svn:mergeinfo property?

From: Alfred von Campe <alfred_at_von-campe.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 07:15:11 -0400

On May 31, 2017, at 11:18, I wrote:

> After many years of development, we have over 100 entries in the svn:mergeinfo property of our trunk. I am thinking about manually editing the property to remove entries for all branches that have been deleted or are no longer used (and should be deleted). I am hoping that once I merge trunk into the other active branches, the cleanup of that property will also propagate to the other branches.
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> So my questions are:
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> Is this safe to do?
> Will the changes to the properly be merged to all other branches over time as one would expect?

Has anyone ever done this? Are there any negative repercussions? Inquiring minds (well, maybe it’s just me) want to know…

Alfred
Received on 2017-06-02 13:15:24 CEST

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