Re: svn:mergeinfo updated for unchanged files/folders at merge of a feature branch to trunk - is this desirable?

On Sun, 2016-06-12 at 02:11 +0200, Branko Čibej wrote:

> > It's not a result of merge of individual folders. I find the pattern
> > in the log for commits I've done and I have most definitely not gone
> > out of my way to explicitly merge several subfolders one-by-one.
>
> As I said, once the subtree mergeinfo is in the repository, it will be
> updated in /every/ merge.
>
> > All users use TortoiseSVN. You think it's related to the client?
> > Should I ask the Tortoise community instead?
>
> We'de really need a more detailed what's actually happening. I'm afraid
> that for now we're only guessing based on your description of the logs;
> that's far from enough.
>
> Personally, the few times I've used TortoiseSVN for merging, I didn't
> notice it behaving in any way differently from the command-line client.

Hello,

The main issue is that merge operation will add a "svn:mergeinfo" at the
current working directory where operation is applied. But it is expected
to be only on "root" folder aka /trunk or /branches/xxx

Two ways to avoid that: guidelines to developers when merging (often
fails) and precommit hook to prevent addition of svn:mergeinfo property
to "non-root" folders.

To cleanup an existing working-copy, I have designed a Perl script that
checks if a svn:mergeinfo may be "moved" up to "root" folder:
https://github.com/ymartin59/svn-clean-mergeinfo

It is not "perfect" (yet... do not hesitate to report issues with test
cases) but it helps a lot to reduce svn:mergeinfo sets. Then a quick
human check is required to finalize: remove remaning properties and
commit the result.

Hope this helps

-- 
Yves Martin