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Re: svn rename adds mergeinfo property / renaming in working copy does not

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_apache.org>
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 20:21:41 +0100

On 07.11.2017 16:14, Nicolai Scheer wrote:
> Still, I can't get from the archives why a URL to URL rename does add
> mergeinfo, although the folder to be renamed does not have any
> mergeinfo props itself.
> But maybe I'm just not into the details why this can't be changed
> easily...

Copying a directory is the same as creating a branch. You need the
mergeinfo in order to know what to merge. The recorded mergeinfo
describes the source path and revision of the branch.

-- Brane
Received on 2017-11-07 20:21:45 CET

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