Stefan Sperling wrote on Tue, May 09, 2017 at 15:25:23 +0200: > This could be further extended by the config knob to give users a choice. > I don't see a good way of adding such a knob in a patch release, though.
Just give the knob a name that indicates it's not forward compatible? For illustration, if the knob in 1.10 will be called "foo", then the knob in 1.9.6 could be named "SVN_NFC_foo", where the prefix stands for "svn not forward compatible". > Perhaps that could be done for 1.10.