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Re: Is it safe to remove deleted and no longer used branches from the svn:mergeinfo property?

From: Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 08:48:38 -0400

Actually, this is the newer tool I was thinking of:

http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/tools/client-side/svn-mergeinfo-normalizer/

Mark

On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 8:46 AM, Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Have you seen this script?
>
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/tools/
> client-side/mergeinfo-sanitizer.py
>
> I believe it does this though I have never tried it.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 11:18 AM, Alfred von Campe <alfred_at_von-campe.com>
> wrote:
>
>> After many years of development, we have over 100 entries in the
>> svn:mergeinfo property of our trunk. I am thinking about manually editing
>> the property to remove entries for all branches that have been deleted or
>> are no longer used (and should be deleted). I am hoping that once I merge
>> trunk into the other active branches, the cleanup of that property will
>> also propagate to the other branches.
>>
>> So my questions are:
>>
>>
>> - Is this safe to do?
>> - Will the changes to the properly be merged to all other branches
>> over time as one would expect?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alfred
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Thanks
>
> Mark Phippard
> http://markphip.blogspot.com/
>

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
Received on 2017-06-02 14:48:44 CEST

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