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Re: Issue #3036 -- svn_client_merge3() and merge tracking

From: David Glasser <glasser_at_davidglasser.net>
Date: 2007-11-30 19:25:33 CET

On Nov 30, 2007 10:09 AM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato@collab.net> wrote:
> 1. Teach svn_client_merge3() to do real relatedness checks, and upon
> finding that the sources provided are in fact related, setup the merge in
> the same way that svn_client_merge_peg3() does. This guarantees that merge
> tracking will work in those scenarios. But it has some annoying UI
> consequences (see comments in issue #3036), and makes for a confusing API
> (sometimes you get merge tracking, sometimes you don't, and explaining when
> you do and don't could be a challenge to the uneducated).
>
> 2. We could simply say that svn_client_merge3() does not support merge
> tracking at all, and to get merge tracking, you must use
> svn_client_merge_peg3(). The entire world is simplified this way.

At the CLI level, what causes svn_client_merge3 vs svn_client_merge_peg3 to run?

--dave

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David Glasser | glasser_at_davidglasser.net | http://www.davidglasser.net/
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