Can the mergeinfo of a reintegrate-merge be ignored?

When I reintegrate a feature-branch into trunk, this creates a
svn:mergeinfo property on trunk, e.g. "Merged
/branches/featureBranch:r149-188".

What is the purpose of that information? Can (or should) it be ignored when
committing trunk after the reintegrate-merge?

Since it is recommended to delete feature-branches after they were
reintegrated, why should this mergeinfo be kept? Wouldn't that property
then be propagated to each and every future (feature-)branch and tag?

Thanks for your help and best regards.

-Martin
Received on 2012-08-02 11:12:52 CEST