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Re: preventing recording misaligned mergeinfos

From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2015 09:58:27 +0000

Stefan Hett wrote on Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 19:03:08 +0200:
> It does and that's not quite the problem for me. However what's
> possible to do with SVN are merges like these:
>
> merge A/B/somefile into A

That surprises me. We have a similar validation for 'switch' that
enforces the source and target are related
(http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3848); shouldn't we
have something similar for 'merge'?

Cheers,

Daniel

> absolutely valid operation, but nothing we use here. In cases this
> is done here in our company it's always an incorrect merge (because
> someone chose the wrong destination folder.
> So we want to prevent issues like these, because they can easily
> result in polluting the mergeinfo records.
Received on 2015-09-06 11:58:46 CEST

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