On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Jacob Weber <ja...@jacobweber.com> wrote:
> Stein Somers: > > I see some self-refenertial mergeinfo in our /trunk, after lots of > > merges to and from. Maybe I explicitly added it with a record-only in > > some state of confusion. But it doesn't scare me at all. It would only > > matter if you explicitly merged /trunk to /trunk. And then, as far as I > > can tell, it would only cause svn merge to do less than it does without > > the self-refenertial mergeinfo, and as far as I can tell a > > self-referential foward merge doesn't do anything anyway. > > > It does scare me a little. When I have self-referential mergeinfo, it > causes problems with "svn log -g" (show merged revisions). It gets confused > and shows me ALL revisions in the branch, from the time it was created. So > the command takes forever, and returns way too much data. > > Jacob So if and when this does occur and you can't live with the inconvenience, just "svn propedit svn:mergeinfo" and manually clean up any references to self. That should be safe AFAIK. R.
