On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:59 AM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net> wrote:
> Mark Phippard wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Paul Burba <ptburba_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> REALLY FIXING THE PROBLEM:
>>>
>>> Stopping all the WC-to-WC production of needless explicit mergeinfo
>>> would go a longggg way to avoiding this, but that doesn't help those
>>> (including us) with lots of historical subtree mergeinfo. More and
>>> more I think that copy and move (all, not just WC-to-WC) should never
>>> produce mergeinfo on the destination *unless* the source has it. It
>>> can't be worse than what we deal with now...
>>
>> I propose we just do this ... now. Let's just rip this code out of WC
>> to WC copy. Do not create mergeinfo when copying stuff. Forget about
>> making it smarter, let's just stop doing it. The problems we have
>> created by doing this are far worse than the theoretical problems we
>> could prevent by getting it right.
>>
>> Ripping this out will make our product better now and reduce user
>> frustration. If the theoretical problems turn into real problems and
>> if someone is motivated enough to put this code back then they can do
>> so in a way that gets it right.
>>
>> Let's stop the madness. If this one feature had not been put into
>> 1.5, then most of the problems relating to mergeinfo handling we
>> complain about would not even exist.
>
> At the risk of having you show up on my doorstep in a few hours wielding a
> battle axe, I'd suggest:
>
> 1. making 'svn copy WC WC' be mergeinfo-ignorant,
> 2. having that type of invocation print a warning about the fact
> that mergeinfo wasn't honored, and
> 3. add -g as the flag to calculate mergeinfo *with full repository
> access*?
My only objection is that we have said this at least 100 times now. I
am saying lets do #1 .. today. If someone cares enough to do #2 and 3
it will get done.
--
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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