RFC: Make default depth of merge infinity

Currently (trunk_at_37129) the default depth of a merge is the depth of
the merge target. If the target has children that are at a deeper
depth then those children are not merged to.

For example, say we have this merge target:

  branch/ (depth == immediates)
  branch/notes/ (depth == empty)
  branch/src/ (depth == infinity)
  branch/README.TXT (depth N/A)

If we merge with no depth option specified the merge will not merge
any applicable changes into branch/src/*.

Several people find this a bit counter-intuitive, and I agree:

http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2009-03/0701.shtml

This can be worked around by passing --depth=infinity to the merge
subcommand, but I doubt many users will realize this.

Also, this is inconsistent with how update works. In the above
example if we update branch with no --depth or --set-depth option then
branch/src/* would get any available updates.

I'd like to change merge's default depth to infinity. Any objections
or thoughts?

Paul

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Received on 2009-04-09 22:05:47 CEST