Re: HEADS UP: Damaged mergeinfo in our history; likely pain in our future.

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Jon Foster <Jon.Foster_at_cabot.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Paul Burba [ptburba_at_gmail.com] wrote:
>> [patch snipped]
>
> If you do this, please consider adding a new capability that can be
> tested in the start-commit hook?
>
> I hope I don't ever get bitten by this bug.  But if I do, I'll want to
> make absolutely sure that all my users have a SVN client that
> understands the new mergeinfo format.

It is not a new format. It is making the code more tolerant of, and
fix, an invalid format. Which in theory can only be created by
manually mucking with the property value.

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