Re: Saving merge history (was: Re: merge should copy-with-history)

Karl Fogel <kfogel@newton.ch.collab.net> writes:

> Philip Martin <philip@codematters.co.uk> writes:
> > Doesn't setting svn:merge on every file affect the complexity at
> > commit time?
>
> I think he's only proposing to set it "when merging data into a file",
> that is, on files that would change anyway.

This is what Will wrote:

> There is one detail that I think is important: If merge copies a
> directory that didn't exist in revA (ie the dir was added with
> history) then you want to add the merge property to each file
> individually. This does not affect the time complexity as all those
> files are being copied into your working copy anyway.

The files get copied into the working copy, but they will show up as
status copied-with-history and unmodified, so only the parent needs to
be committed. If we set svn:merge on the files then the files will
need to be committed as well.

-- 
Philip Martin
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