merge logs

Hi,

I've read much about the ideas for merge nirvana that are on the SVN road map
and it looks like there is lots to do. It looks like fixing up renaming is
the first on the list.

But looking from the outside in, what about adding some kind of merge logs to
the repository as a relative priority? For my purposes svnmerge looks like a
good improvement over standard svn merge, but its a shame that the way it
records merges is probably not compatible with any future solution. If merge
logs where added to svn base, then add-on tools like svnmege could make use
of them today, "best practices" that require non-expert users to remember to
write a sane log entry for a merge could be relaxed, and merges initiated
from GUIs would be captured, all in a compatible way. A way to list these
merge logs would of course be required as well. This might even meet some
group's requirement for merge tracking, in that it is at least formally
recorded and manually traceable.

This step, I guess, should be fairly easy to scope and provide good extra
features. It will also allow developers who don't want to fiddle with
repository formats to start looking at improving merge so as to start moving
along the roadmap to that distant nirvana.

Just and outsider looking in,
Thanks for listening,

-- 
> Nick Thompson
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