On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 13:17 +0530, Bhuvaneswaran Arumugam wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 13:43 +0700, Erik Grinaker wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 14:37 +0100, Karl Heinz Marbaise wrote:
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > i have a questions about the behaviour of svn mergeinfo...
> > >
> > > I have created branch, merged from that branch and so on....
> > >
> > > svn mergeinfo
> > > Path: .
> > > Source path: /project1/trunk
> > > Merged ranges: r1:21
> > > Eligible ranges: r31:34
> > > Source path: /project1/branches/B_ENH_F1
> > > Merged ranges: r2:33
> > > Eligible ranges:
> > > Source path: /project1/branches/B_DIFF
> > > Merged ranges: r21:23
> > > Eligible ranges: r23:33
> > >
> > > Ok so far so god...
> > >
> > > But than i deleted the branch B_ENH_F1, cause i completed the work on
> > > that branch...
> > >
> > > svn rm ../project1/branches/B_ENH_F1 -m"- Done."
> > >
> > > and now
> > > svn mergeinfo
> > > Path: .
> > > Source path: /project1/trunk
> > > Merged ranges: r1:21
> > > Eligible ranges: r31:34
> > > Source path: /project1/branches/B_ENH_F1
> > > Merged ranges: r2:33
> > > Eligible ranges: (source no longer available in HEAD)
> > > Source path: /project1/branches/B_DIFF
> > > Merged ranges: r21:23
> > > Eligible ranges: r23:33
> > >
> > > So is it no more best practice to remove the integrated branches or no
> > > more used branches....cause this will produces many messages if i use
> > > the merging intensive with many branches...
> >
> > Yeah, this annoyed me a bit as well. Wouldn't it be better to only
> > display branches which exist in HEAD by default, and add an option to
> > display all branches?
>
> If i'm right, we are supposed to handle this. In case the entry is not
> found, we should display "(source no longer available in HEAD)". I'm not
> sure, if the check is supposed to handle this use case anyway.
Yeah, they are displayed with "(source no longer available in HEAD)",
but it isn't very useful to have tens or hundreds of such entries for
feature branches which have been removed ages ago. I'd much rather only
have the entries for currently active branches by default.
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Received on 2008-03-25 10:20:54 CET