"Guido Anzuoni" wrote
> > [Thrown out to the group at large]
> > So, do all svn users follow the book convention of
> > using a comment to indicate that a "merge occurred
> > with these source/destination revisions" ? Are there
> > any other techniques for tracking this that other
> > developers/Conf Mgrs use?
> Just a warning about the use of this technique.
> If the repository is dumped and not fully reloaded
> (starting at some revision) or is loaded into an existing
> repository with --parent-dir switch, then the comment
> will refer rev. numbers that were valid in the previous
> repository but the actual "playedback" transactions have
> gengerate different revision numbers.
This is one instance where the concept of a 'label'
which marks a prticular sub-tree at a particular revision
would actually be useful, provided that a dump/load cycle
updates it to the correct position. Maybe merge tracking
and labels are related and could be introduced together.
Simon
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Received on Thu Oct 7 19:54:01 2004