Re: copying from another branch [Question about excessive mergeinfo]

[Stein Somers <ss...@opnet.com>]

On 12/01/2010 10:40, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
> Why only merge a part of the initial changeset?

Well, you said I should merge, and I only want a part!

Okay, first of all, I have no question. I just brought this up to 
illustrate that excessive mergeinfo exists and you shouldn't assume 
you're doing something wrong and you can prevent it from being 
committed. I did find your point interesting, but now I don't think you 
were making the point I read. But in case you were, here is my 
illustration elaborated.

I want a copy of some kind of file set that was shipped to customers, 
called /branches/fancy_release/sample_input

I want a copy called /trunk/sample_input_of_fancy_release so I can add 
test code to insure that the software is backwards compatibility, at 
least for the input I already shipped myself.

I said: URL -> WC copy, but that adds duplicate mergeinfo. You said, 
merge the addition. But the changeset that originally added sample_input 
contains other stuff I'm not interested in, and I want the final version 
of sample_input. So, quite a complicated 2-stage merge process it seemed.

-- 
Stein