RE: RFC: Standardizing a 'svn:branch' (boolean) property

> -----Original Message-----
> From: C. Michael Pilato [mailto:cmpilato_at_collab.net]
> Sent: maandag 16 juli 2012 21:52
> To: Daniel Shahaf
> Cc: Bert Huijben; 'Branko Čibej'; dev_at_subversion.apache.org
> Subject: Re: RFC: Standardizing a 'svn:branch' (boolean) property
>
> On 07/16/2012 03:41 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> > Bert Huijben wrote on Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 19:51:59 +0200:
> >> A simple question this 'might' help answer is:
> >>
> >> I have a project file ^/trunk/src/Ankh.Package/Ankh.Package.csproj,
> which my user wants to check out. Which directory level should we suggest
> the user checks out?
> >
> > The highest (closest-to-root) level that has svn:mergeinfo set.
>
> Huh? Most trunks won't have mergeinfo on them unless they've been the
> recipient of a merge from elsewhere.

Just checking a few real world repositories and yes, trunk doesn't have svn:mergeinfo in my 'normal' usecases.

And I think this would certainly apply to about every repository where one is experimenting with the tools to find out whether they want to use it or not.

        Bert
Received on 2012-07-16 22:52:16 CEST