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Re: Playing with svnmover

From: Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 03:15:37 +0100

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 4:17 PM, Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13 March 2015, Julian Foad wrote:
>> Dear fans of move tracking,
>>
>> I heartily invite you to help by playing with 'svnmover'. Can you have
>> a go and see what it can do? It's quite fun to play with (in a nerdy
>> way :-)
>
> One unimplemented bit you might come across is 'svnmover merge'
> doesn't try to merge file content. It reports a conflict if file
> content (text and/or props) needs merging. That's simply because it
> isn't directly relevant to the move logic so I didn't bother to
> implement it yet; we can use directories instead of files, or files
> without content changes, to test the move logic. Please feel free to
> add text and props merging code near the comment
>
> /* ### Need not conflict if can merge props and text separately. */
>
> in svnmover.c:element_merge(), if you fancy doing so.
>
> Anyone tried or planning to try this, yet?
>

I intend to take a closer look soon. But as you know, my definition of
"soon" is a bit ... vague ;-).

I greatly appreciate your efforts to get "move support" ... moving in svn.

-- 
Johan
Received on 2015-03-18 03:17:10 CET

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