On Aug 2, 2011, at 2:43 AM, Steffen Böhme wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I having a simple but practical problem I would like to share and request, if 
> the behavior could be changed in the way it should work in my opinion.
> 
> When having 2 branches, lets say trunk and dev with a initialized merge 
> tracking via svnmerge.py from trunk to dev.
> 
> When I have to jump over some revision in trunk while merging to dev I have 3 
> possibilities to do this permanent:
> * svnmerge.py block -r ...
> * svnmerge.py merge -M -r ...
> * svnmerge.py init --force -r ... ../trunk
> 
> But all of those methods changes not the svn internal merge tracking property 
> so from view of svn merge tracking the merge is never happen or better, the 
> jump over from svnmerge.py is not known for svn internal merge tracking.
> 
> Would it be possible to extend the methods to let "svnmerge.py merge -M" 
> and/or "svnmerge block" also update the svn:mergeinfo property and to add the 
> revisions, which are blocked or recorded only, to the revisions already 
> existing in svn:mergeinfo?
> 
> What are your minds about this?

I think you should pick svnmerge.py or built-in merge tracking.  At this point, 
I recommend svn's built-in merge tracking, the only thing it doesn't have is a 
nice way of blocking revisions from merging.

Blair


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