Re: mergeinfo clean

Curiosity up front: I couldn't find an encoding that displayed the
letter/accent between the 'i' and 's' in your name, I only get a box there.
What encoding are you using and what should be there?

On Tuesday 25 January 2011, Piotr Kabaciński wrote:
> Working with svn project for longer time causes growth of mergeinfo
> property and very unreadable diffs between commits.

There is one good rule about merging, and that is to always merge to the same
root directory of the project. Once parts of a project are merged separately,
they retain their own svn:mergeinfo property, and every merge to the root
then changes these, too, even if nothing on that child item was changed. This
of course requires that you don't mix different changes in a single commit,
but that is a best practice anyway.

> SVN with every commit updates mergeinfo value what is needed to keep
> tracking merges, but sometimes updating this value is no longer needed
> because merged branch no longer exists and i do not need to remember
> about it.
> I created a program that checks every mergeinfo property and if listed
> path doesn't exists it is removed.
> What do you think about this solution? Do you think it is safe?

You could nuke the whole svn:mergeinfo without SVN itself falling apart.
However, some things won't work "right" automatically any more. In particular
SVN won't ignore requests to merge things that were already merged, because
it doesn't know about them. Now, the chance of someone merging from a deleted
branch (which is of course still possible!) are small, so I guess your method
is safe.

Cheers!

Uli

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