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

From: Stefan Hett <stefan_at_egosoft.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 18:00:15 +0200

On 6/12/2016 12:39 PM, Branko Čibej wrote:
> On 12.06.2016 10:06, Yves Martin wrote:
>> 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.
> Yes, as I noted above; and this is necessary in order to make 'svn
> merge' work correctly.
>
>> But it is expected to be only on "root" folder aka /trunk or /branches/xxx
> I'd rather say 'desired', not 'expected'. :)
>
>> 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
> Let me point you at:
>
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/tools/client-side/svn-mergeinfo-normalizer
>
> This is not part of any Subversion release yet, but it's fairly complete
> feature-wise and could surely use a lot of testing in real-world
> environments.
And in case you wanna give it a quick try: It's included in MaxSVN's
trunk dev builds:
http://www.luke1410.de/typo3/index.php?id=97
(runs on Win Vista+ only - 64-bit)

As Brane stated, be careful and double check the results before
committing any changes.

-- 
Regards,
Stefan Hett
Received on 2016-06-13 18:00:26 CEST

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