Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_btopenworld.com> writes:
> My recent thread "[PATCH] Help text improvements for 'svn merge'"
> includes the following clarification to the help text:
>
>> " NOTE: Subversion will only record metadata to track the merge\n"
>> " if the two sources are on the same line of history -- if the\n"
>> " first source is an ancestor of the second, or vice-versa. This is\n"
>> " guaranteed to be the case when using the third form listed above.\n"
>> + " The --ignore-ancestry option overrides this, forcing Subversion to\n"
>> + " regard the sources as unrelated and not to track the merge.\n"),
>
> -------------------------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> This is based on my understanding after talking with pburba and cmpilato.
Okay, thanks. I think that will clarify things for a lot of users (not
just me :-) ).
(Someday we still might want a separate --no-record option... but not
for 1.5.0!)
-K
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Received on 2008-03-28 04:38:16 CET