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Posted to dev@subversion.apache.org by Daniel Rall <dl...@collab.net> on 2007/04/05 00:04:14 UTC
Re: [merge tracking] Prop changes to the "svn:mergeinfo" property
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Daniel Rall wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Peter Lundblad wrote:
>
> > Daniel Rall writes:
> > > We already provide the 'merge --record-only' command for changing the
> > > merge history of a path. Should the behavior of our prop change
> > > commands/APIs change such that they act on inherited property values,
> > > rather than the explicit values they work with today? Or should the
> > > behavior remain the same? I tend to think the latter. Thoughts?
> >
> > I think I agree, so we don't go too far in inventing real inherited props
> > but just for this property.
>
> Okay, I'll update the func spec, and drop the corresponding items from
> the TODO file.
I did this a couple weeks back.
> > On a side note, are we going to support the case where
> > we update merge info (as the result of a merge) but a child
> > path is switched?
>
> This is currently unsupported, but I think we should.
This still needs to be added to the spec.