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Re: Log excluding svn:mergeinfo changes

From: Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:12:51 +0100

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:48:13AM -0500, Thomas S. Trias wrote:
> Is there a good way to get the log for a path excluding changes that
> only affected svn:mergeinfo? We have a project with several one-off
> copies of files, where changes to the copyfrom-path get merged in
> periodically. We then have a feature branch that gets merges from
> trunk. When we merge to the feature branch, the one-offs get
> updated svn:mergeinfo since they already have the svn:mergeinfo from
> the copyfrom-path. Because of this, svn ls, svn info, and svn log
> show the path for revisions where only the svn:mergeinfo changed;
> svn ls and svn info become useless for finding the latest revision
> for a path.
>
> In order to get around this, we end up performing multiple svn diffs
> (a summarize of repo_at_rev to keep paths with text changes followed by
> a diff per path to determine if the only property change was to
> svn:mergeinfo). Luckily, the information can be cached once
> computed.
>
> While the decision to use a standard property for svn:mergeinfo is
> an elegant solution in terms of using functionality already
> available, it has awkward side-effects like the one mentioned above.
> Since it is a special property (as now reflected by options that
> follow merge history), it would be nice to also have options to
> ignore the property for the purposes of log, info, diff, ls, etc.
> Maybe this already exists and I'm missing something?

There is an experimental branch which is aimed at implementing
what you need:
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/branches/ignore-mergeinfo/BRANCH-README

I don't know what the status of this branch is, though.
It looks like work on it has been suspended, possibly because
Hyrum (who started this branch) is uber-busy with the ongoing
working copy implementation re-write and other duties.

Stefan
Received on 2010-03-15 17:13:27 CET

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