Mark Phippard wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Paul Burba<ptburba_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mark Phippard<markphip_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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
>>>> -------------------------------------------------------
>>>> 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).
>> I agree that the use cases for svn mergeinfo --depth immediates |
>> files are probably quite limited, but was under the impression that -R
>> | -N have effectively been deprecated in favor of --depth?
>
> Possibly. Not sure. I think in cases like this one, if that is our
> policy then it is the wrong one. It also means you will have to write
> the code to implement support for options that no one needs or wants.
While I believe we have deprecated -N (as its meaning differed from
subcommand to subcommand), -R is *absolutely not* deprecated, and remains
the preferred shorthand for --depth=infinity.
I would encourage you to allow both -R and --depth options, but feel free to
make any --depth value except "infinity" or "empty" (the default) return
SVN_ERR_UNSUPPORTED_FEATURE for now.
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C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
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