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Re: merge tracking on the 1.5 branch

From: Paul Burba <ptburba_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 10:59:11 -0500

On Feb 1, 2008 12:25 AM, David Glasser <glasser_at_davidglasser.net> wrote:
> On Jan 31, 2008 8:51 PM, Justin Erenkrantz <justin_at_erenkrantz.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Jan 31, 2008 8:45 PM, Karl Fogel <kfogel_at_red-bean.com> wrote:
> > > "David Glasser" <glasser_at_davidglasser.net> writes:
> > > > Should we use svnmerge.py or something until the server is running an RC?
> > >
> > > Excellent idea. Yes; because that way when we upgrade, we'll also be
> > > testing our conversion script.
> >
> > If you use svnmerge.py with a trunk/1.5 client, I find that it still
> > sets svn:mergeinfo properties against older servers. So, the
> > conversion scripts will be a little wonky as you'll need to prune the
> > 1.5-set merge properties that are invalid. Thinking about it, this
> > probably shouldn't happen due to capability negotiation, but I know it
> > *does* with current trunk against 1.4.x servers. Fair warning. --
> > justin
>
> Are you 100% positive? I could have sworn we specifically disabled
> that about a month ago. If not we should continue down that line.

FWIW I just merged some approved changes from trunk to 1.5.x with a
1.5 client using svnmerge.py and no svn:mergeinfo was created.

Paul

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