Hi Mark
Thanks very much for your reply.
> IMO, 1.5.5 is a critical release and it should be applied to clients.
Would you say it is critical for the server as well as for clients?
BR
David
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Phippard [mailto:markphip_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: 06 January 2009 14:36
> To: David Aldrich
> Cc: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: Subversion 1.5.5 - reintegrate fix
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:28 AM, David Aldrich
> <David.Aldrich_at_eu.nec.com> wrote:
>
> > The svn 1.5.5 release notes include the change:
> >
> > * improve performance of 'svn merge --reintegrate'
> (r34091, -4, and
> > others)
> >
> > I am trying to decide whether 1.5.5 is a critical update
> for us. We do use the reintegrate merge feature. Is this
> change purely a performance improvement, or could reintegrate
> produce wrong results in earlier releases?
>
> The fix really was not related to performance. What the fix
> did was correct the problems where reintegrate refuses to run
> because you have subtree mergeinfo. It now does a more
> intelligent examination of the content of that mergeinfo to
> determine when it is OK that it exists.
>
> The merge itself is not changed at all, it is just the
> checking that reintegrate does before it runs the merge.
>
> IMO, 1.5.5 is a critical release and it should be applied to clients.
> If you successfully use reintegrate today, then these
> specific fixes will not matter to you, but there were other
> changes that are significant. For example, local copy/move
> no longer creates the mergeinfo that causes so many of the
> annoyances in earlier 1.5.x releases.
>
> --
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>
> Mark Phippard
> http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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