> -------Original Message-------
> From: Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_btopenworld.com>
> Subject: Report mergeinfo-only changes less verbosely [was: [RFC] *Greatly* improve merge performance...]
> Sent: 10 Jul '09 07:31
>
> Geoff Rowell wrote:
> > Aside from performance, I wouldn't have such a problem with distributed
> > mergeinfo if it didn't tend to alarm my users. They try to merge a few
> > files and Subversion reports a massive number of changes.
> >
> > A serious review of where and when mergeinfo property changes are
> > reported is needed.
>
> We talked once about hiding mergeinfo-only changes from the user, and
> that was rightly rejected. Did we talk about "sidelining" or
> "summarising" their display?
>
> It seems clear now, with hindsight and lots of mergeinfo, that UIs, both
> our "svn" CLI and GUIs like TortoiseSvn, should help the user to see the
> significant changes without the clutter of mergeinfo-only changes.
>
> "svn status" could by default summarize all the mergeinfo-only changes
> in one line at the end:
>
> [[[
> $ svn status
> M myfile
> M dir/myfile2
> 43 items with changes to mergeinfo are also present but not shown.
> ]]]
>
> "svn commit" when generating a log message could list them separately:
>
> [[[
>
> --This line, and those below, will be ignored--
>
> M myfile
> MM dir/myfile2
>
> The following items have only mergeinfo changes:
> M .
> M file1
> M dir
> M dir/file4
> M dir/file5
> M dir/file6
> ...
> M dir/file43
> ]]]
>
> This would require modifications to the "status" and "commit"
> notification methods, of course. And there are command-line
> compatibility questions, but it's not a big deal to decide on a solution
> to those.
I started hacking some of these ideas several months ago on the ignore-mergeinfo branch. I did some client-side filtering, but stopped short of extending this to the repository APIs. It could be done, though. Feel free to use the branch if you want to start working on this idea.
> Worth doing?
>
> Where are the other places that should have this separation/summarising?
>
> - Julian
>
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Received on 2009-07-15 19:10:10 CEST