Re: RFC: Improvements to 'svn mergeinfo' subcommand for 1.7

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Paul Burba<ptburba_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to make two changes to the svn mergeinfo command for 1.7 to
> address these drawbacks:
>
> 1) Account for Non-Inheritable Revision Ranges
> ----------------------------------------------

+1 to this one. I think it is a no-brainer that we should definitely just do.

> 2) Optionally Consider Subtrees with Explicit Mergeinfo
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> I'd like to add the --depth option to svn mergeinfo so these differing
> subtrees are considered.  As above, revisions that are only partially
> merged to the target would be marked with a '*':

I am not sure about using --depth for this. I think I would just use
-R. If you are going to use depth, then you need to make all of the
different depth options have some kind of meaning, and I cannot see
that being useful for this. You pretty much either want to just base
it on the target, or on everything (fully recursive).

Are you proposing any changes in the format of the output? My
assumption is no. IOW, you are not going to try to report that a
certain subtree needs revisions that the target does not.

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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