Question about svn log -g

Last night I checked out the latest trunk (r27167) to start really
looking at the new merge-tracking features (which I am really excited
about). I'm a little confused at the choice of working in the 'svn
log -g' output. (I'm using the merge-tracking early adopter sample
repo).

Here a snippet of the log output in question: (svn log -gv
file:///share/repo/trunk)

<log>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r8 | merger | 2007-05-30 14:29:16 -0500 (Wed, 30 May 2007) | 1 line
Changed paths:
   M /trunk

Block r7 from branch a
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r7 | auser | 2007-05-30 14:27:04 -0500 (Wed, 30 May 2007) | 1 line
Changed paths:
   A /branches/a/blocked
   A /branches/a/blocked/index.html
Result of a merge from: r8

Create blocked folder. This should only ever exist on branch a
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r6 | merger | 2007-05-25 19:16:28 -0500 (Fri, 25 May 2007) | 1 line
Changed paths:
   M /trunk
   M /trunk/index.html
   M /trunk/news/index.html
   A /trunk/products/medium.html (from /branches/a/products/medium.html:5)

Merge branch a. Added medium product.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r4 | auser | 2007-05-25 19:13:35 -0500 (Fri, 25 May 2007) | 1 line
Changed paths:
   M /branches/a/index.html
   M /branches/a/news/index.html
   A /branches/a/products/medium.html
Result of a merge from: r6

Create page for medium product.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
</log>

"Result of a merge from: r8" in the log for r7 for example doesn't
make any sense to me. What this to me is "r7 is the result of a merge
from r8", which of course doesn't make since. How can a revision be a
merge result FROM a later revision? I really think it should really
be "Source of a merge for: r8".

I'm looking at this as how I'm going to explain it to my users when we
switch (hopefully some time next summer after 1.5 has been out for a
while).

Hum looking at it just now I think I see what it really means. Your
really saying that the display of r7 is a result of it being the
source of a merge from r8. Even then I still think the
wording/formatting is quite right. Perhaps indenting the logs of the
sources? Otherwise this is very confusing and I KNOW I'll be
fielding many confused questions from my users down the road.

Troy

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