RE: moving files in repobrowser generates mergeinfo

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From: Stefan Sperling [stsp_at_elego.de]
Sent: 26 June 2012 10:06
To: James French
Cc: users_at_subversion.apache.org
Subject: Re: moving files in repobrowser generates mergeinfo

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 09:47:06AM +0100, James French wrote:
> Thanks Stefan. I wish it didn't add that mergeinfo. Actually if mergeinfo was entirely internal I wouldn't care what it did (as long as it worked). Its all the checkin clutter that upsets me.

How much clutter do you have? If you're using 1.7 it shouldn't be all
that bad anymore, see http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.7.html#subtree-mergeinfo-recording

Quite a lot has built up. We're not using 1.7 yet. I am doing preliminary testing/upgrading scripts etc. I will also delete all non-root merge info. My hope is to get to a situation where mergeinfo only exists on the root as we always merge from the root. 1.7 will help things I am sure but it still seems that mergeinfo will probably still creep in due to per-file merges to resolve tree conflicts where people forget to check 'ignore ancestry', and through repobrowser renaming. I am hoping 1.8 will resolve the first of these issues.
Received on 2012-06-26 11:57:01 CEST