On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Blair Zajac wrote:
> dlr@tigris.org wrote:
> >http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2836
> >
> >
> >
> >User dlr changed the following:
> >
> > What |Old value |New value
> >================================================================================
> > Issue type|DEFECT |FEATURE
> >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Keywords| |merge-tracking
> >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Target milestone|--- |1.6
> >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Putting the blocking and unblocking feature back to 1.6 doesn't seem like a
> good idea. It does seem like a basic feature we would want. Is it that
> much work to slip it back to 1.6?
>
> The workaround seems clumsy to me:
>
> "Until this is implemented, the work around is to use 'svn merge
> --record-only'
> to block/unblock revisions from merging, and keep a separate list of
> revisions
> which are to later be considered "blocked". It would be possible to keep
> such a
> list in another Subversion property like "blocked-revisions" to avoid the
> need
> for separate storage."
>
> People are going to modify svnmerge.py to do this :) It would be nice to
> remove the need completely for svnmerge.py in 1.5.
Because there is a work-around, I don't consider it a hard blocker for
a 1.5.0 release, especially in comparison to the other outstanding 1.5
items. That said, blocking is a commonly requested feature, and I
would be absolutely delighted if someone implemented it for 1.5.
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Received on Tue Jul 17 01:11:31 2007