Mark Phippard wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Eric (Brad) Lemings <brad_at_rebit.com> wrote:
>
>> I just noticed that when I do an 'svn copy' from trunk to a branch, the
>> svn:mergeinfo property is not reflecting this. Example:
>>
>> $ svn copy trunk/software/ComponentA/ComponentA.cpp
>> branch/ebl-2008-09-09/library/ComponentA
>> A branch/ebl-2008-09-09/library/ComponentA/ComponentA.cpp
>> $ cd branch/ebl-2008-09-09
>> $ svn propget svn:mergeinfo library/ComponentA/ComponentA.cpp
>>
>> /Rebit3/branch/3914-XX-YYYY-Z/software/ComponentA/ComponentA.cpp:3922-3930,3945-3949
>>
>> Uhh, what's going on here?
>>
>
> It is not supposed to create mergeinfo for a copy. The "natural
> history" of a file is already known without creating any value in the
> property. The only thing that comes through in the property is the
> contents of the property being copied.
>
> If you run the same propget command on the file in trunk presumably it
> already contained that value?
>
Not the file itself but the 'trunk' directory did. I guess it was
inherited. Thanks for the tip.
Just curious though, if Subversion tracks history separately from the
svn:mergeinfo property, what is that property used for?
Eric.
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Received on 2008-10-10 18:29:26 CEST