On Oct 7, 2004, at 1:38 PM, Simon Large wrote:
> "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.
I think the cheap-copy 'tag' still works for this.
Scott
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