On Monday 11 January 2010, Stein Somers wrote: > No explanation here, and not the same symptoms, but you're not the only > one struggling with it. I have a pre-commit hook to detect mergeinfo > below root, and remove it whenever it occurs, which is rare.
Doh. Wish I had had that idea earlier. > When copying by URL a subdirectory from another branch to somewhere in a > WC, the new subdirectory always gets a mergeinfo property. Its value is > a copy of the mergeinfo of the root of the source branch (where this > "root" is an interpretation of course; more accurately, it is the > nearest (and only) higher directory that has a mergeinfo property, > relative to the copied subdirectory). Technically, a missing mergeinfo implicitly means that a dir or file has its parent dir's mergeinfo. This is even documented. So, the source dir doesn't actually get a new and different mergeinfo, it is only set on the dir explicitly now while it was implicit before. > Not surprisingly, the new mergeinfo is a subset of the mergeinfo of the > current working copy root: fewer branches listed, fewer revisions listed. > In my interpretation of the rules, this mergeinfo is entirely useless. > So no thank you, I don't commit it. I think SVN wants you to not copy the file/dir but instead to merge the revision where it was added to the branch. Yes, a simple copy is easier to explain in some cases, though it doesn't capture all possible changes in a branch. Cheers! Uli -- ML: http://subversion.tigris.org/mailing-list-guidelines.html FAQ: http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html Docs: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ Sator Laser GmbH, Fangdieckstraße 75a, 22547 Hamburg, Deutschland Geschäftsführer: Thorsten Föcking, Amtsgericht Hamburg HR B62 932 ************************************************************************************** Sator Laser GmbH, Fangdieckstraße 75a, 22547 Hamburg, Deutschland Geschäftsführer: Thorsten Föcking, Amtsgericht Hamburg HR B62 932 ************************************************************************************** Visit our website at <http://www.satorlaser.de/> ************************************************************************************** Diese E-Mail einschließlich sämtlicher Anhänge ist nur für den Adressaten bestimmt und kann vertrauliche Informationen enthalten. Bitte benachrichtigen Sie den Absender umgehend, falls Sie nicht der beabsichtigte Empfänger sein sollten. Die E-Mail ist in diesem Fall zu löschen und darf weder gelesen, weitergeleitet, veröffentlicht oder anderweitig benutzt werden. E-Mails können durch Dritte gelesen werden und Viren sowie nichtautorisierte Änderungen enthalten. Sator Laser GmbH ist für diese Folgen nicht verantwortlich. **************************************************************************************
