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Trying to understand svn:mergeinfo

From: Robert Dailey <rcdailey_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:24:42 -0500

Hi,

I did a little experiment. I made a branch, but I forgot what revision my
working copy was at when I did the branch. I wasn't able to figure out what
commit revision of trunk I branched from, so I simply did an SVN Merge and
did 1-HEAD of trunk. I didn't get any text updates, but I did get a lot of
files updated with property changes. I've always wanted to understand how
subversion determines how to add svn:mergeinfo properties. Only a random few
files and directories received the properties, while other things in the
working copy were left untouched. This seems very non deterministic.

Also, after doing 1-HEAD, I noticed that there were still items in the "Show
Log" in the merge dialog that weren't grayed out. Is this normal?
Technically I merged 1-HEAD, so every single revision in trunk's show log
should be gray. This is all very confusing, so I was hoping someone could
briefly shed some light on this topic. Thank you!
Received on 2008-08-26 22:24:52 CEST

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