On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Z W <mpc8250_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Bob, we're still seeing the problem of unwanted touches of files and
> > directories on new unmerged rev numbers, even after we reapply all merges
> > for all previous already-merged at feature branch root level.
> > We're getting concerned now, wondering if we misunderstood the
> explanations
> > here.
> > We're using SVN 1.6
>
> When you do a merge with an SVN 1.6 client, all paths beneath the
> merge target that have the svn:mergeinfo property set on them will be
> "touched" by the merge. Something about the mergeinfo on those items
> will always be changed. Usually it will just be adding the revisions
> merged to the ranges stored in the properties.
>
> With an SVN 1.7 client, merge will only update the mergeinfo for paths
> that were affected by the merge.
>
> I have not followed the thread, but you can probably remove the
> svn:mergeinfo property from these files and just start to be sure you
> only do all future merges from the root of the tree.
>
> --
> Thanks
>
> Mark Phippard
> http://markphip.blogspot.com/
>
Hi Mark
Thanks for the response.
We find the mergeinfo property useful in helping us capture all the rev
numbers to merge from trunk to branch at the root level.
so we're not sure if we like to remove it.
Received on 2013-04-24 23:03:42 CEST