svn copy WC-WC and empty mergeinfo

[Marc Strapetz <ma...@syntevo.com>]

With RC7 on Windows when locally copying a file with

   svn cp file1 file2

an empty svn:mergeinfo property is added to file2. Is this (still) 
necessary and correct? Initially this behavior has been introduced with 
r26495, when --use-merge-history still existed.

 From my current understanding it does no harm when keeping implicit 
mergeinfo for a copied file (it's the same as for added files, where 
svn:mergeinfo isn't emptied, too!?) It should be even correct to keep 
explicit as well as implicit mergeinfo: When merging to the copied file 
from a source which had already been merged to its copy source, the 
merge shouldn't be performed again. But this would happen with an empty 
mergeinfo.

Of course, these cumulations of empty mergeinfos are also not very 
aesthetic :)

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Best regards,
Marc Strapetz
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