Re: officially freezing svn:mergeinfo syntax

Stefan Sperling wrote on Mon, May 23, 2011 at 14:11:44 +0200:
> We can always add a new property (e.g. svn:mergeinfo2) if we want
> to add information or use a new syntax.

Err... not easily.

The filesystem layer has certain optimizations for efficiently finding
paths with svn:mergeinfo set on them (e.g., minfo-count in fsfs), so if
we introduce a new property then we won't be able to efficiently find it
in old servers.

Unless we encode its location into the existing svn:mergeinfo properties
in a format that 1.6.17 would consider valid but wouldn't affect its
mergeinfo calculations.... but that's impractical.
Received on 2011-05-23 15:54:51 CEST