SVK (http://svk.elixus.org/) does this almost exactly with its star-merge
feature (svk smerge). SVK is command-line only though.
On 6/16/05, Scott Palmer <scott.palmer@2connected.org> wrote:
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>
> On Jun 15, 2005, at 7:02 PM, Russ Brown wrote:
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> > Olivier Sannier wrote:
> >
> >> Russ Brown wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> Is there any way (other than depending on developers providing
> >>> parsable commit logs) of detecting at the hook stage whether a given
> >>> commit contains a merge or not?
> >>>
> >>> What I want to be able to do is set a revision property
> >>> automatically
> >>> in such cases, which I intend to use in other scripts for helping to
> >>> calculate required merges (among other things).
>
>
> > As Ben has already pointed out, that's simply not currently
> > possible, which is a shame. In that case, the only solutions I can
> > think of are for a hook script to detect the merge from the commit
> > comment, or by the user explicitly declaring a commit by some
> > interface; both of which are prone to the user forgetting.
> >
> > ...how hard would it be to make Subversion set a boolean revprop on
> > revisions that contain 'a merge of some sort'? From what I can
> > figure, that would require the 'merge' command leaving some sort of
> > trace for 'commit' to pick up and apply to the revision. That trace
> > would clearly need to be 'reverted' once all merged-files had been
> > reverted.
>
>
> You could write a wrapper script for the svn command that deferred to
> the regular svn command for all but "merge" (and it's synonyms).. if
> the command completed successfully it could make a revprop in the WC
> that contained details about the merge command.
>
> Handling a subsequent "revert" before the "commit" could get very
> tricky though.
>
> Scott
>
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Received on Thu Jun 16 18:56:21 2005