C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> David Glasser wrote:
>> On Jan 29, 2008 8:22 AM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net> wrote:
>>> I'd like to avoid dump/load, but we can't retroactively prevent
>>> users of 1.4
>>> clients from setting the svn:mergeinfo property on their 1.4-pedigreed
>>> repositories.
>>
>> Also, I'm just unconvinced that this is something we need to worry
>> about. I'm pretty sure we've set up the RA capabilities so that 1.5
>> clients won't try to automatically set "svn:mergeinfo" on repositories
>> that aren't being served by 1.5 servers (and we can involved the
>> version number too), so it comes down to "what if somebody manually
>> runs 'svn ps svn:mergeinfo'?" And, well, it's in our namespace. We
>> reserve the right to make it do weird things. It's the same sort of
>> complaint as "With svn 1.0 I decided to set the svn:special property
>> on a file containing the word 'link'! How come it's now turning my
>> files into symlinks?"
>
> I don't think things are as simple as that. Our documentation for
> Subversion 1.5 will almost certainly call out the fact that the
> property was intentionally designed to be hand-tweakable. We can't
> say that and then expect users to understand that when they do exactly
> what we've told them, they get different results than we tell them
> they'd get.
>
Would it help to provide client commands to assist with the "hand"
tweaking, and discourage direct modification of the svn:mergeinfo
properties?
--Greg Lutz
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