YES PLEASE! :-)
Oops... was I yelling? :-)
Cheers,
mark
On 09/09/2009 01:09 PM, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 11:46:56AM -0400, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
>
>> I was thinking today about how Subversion offers all this flexibility in
>> terms of branch creation ("it's just a copy of a directory!") but sometimes
>> at the cost of some benefits you might otherwise get from a first-class
>> branch object.
>>
>> Could a really, really simple solution help here? What if Subversion
>> recognized a directory property (say, "svn:branch-root") as an indicator
>> that that directory is the root of a branch (where by "branch", I mean "line
>> of development", which includes trunk and tags)? Benefits could include:
>>
>> * the fact that the property would naturally get set on copies of that
>> directory, ensuring that branches of the directory are annotated as
>> such.
>>
>> * helping the client discourage commits of subsets of a branch.
>>
>> * helping the client warn users about merging at anything less than
>> the branch level.
>>
>> * helping tools like ViewVC and Trac identify branches, and add UI
>> goodness accordingly.
>>
> * creates mergeinfo on copies only if the copy crosses an svn:branch
> property (requiring users to set the property on existing repositories
> when upgrading to make use of this feature, else, you get no mergeinfo
> on copies at all).
>
>
>> It sounds too simple to be truly useful. What do others think?
>>
> +1
>
> I've proposed this before some time ago, for both branches and tags:
> http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2009-02/0729.shtml
> And again, just yesterday:
> http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2009-09/0292.shtml
>
> Stefan
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