Re: Merging in Subversion 1.5 (was: Re: Using git to track my PhD thesis, couple of questions)

Am 28.08.2009, 17:29 Uhr, schrieb Avery Pennarun [off-list ref]:

I think they probably meant that it's the client's responsibility to
set the property correctly, not the server's, and if your client is
too old any you do a merge, it'll forget to set svn:mergeinfo, causing
confusion for everyone.  There's discussion in the svn book
(http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.branchmerge.advanced.html) but
nothing implies that it's a non-replicated property.  Indeed, I can
see no particular reason that anyone would want it to be, for the
reasons you specify.

It is replicated, and the common remedy against older clients is to refuse commits from those clients that do not support mergeinfo. This is done by defining a repository hook on the server side that validates this. AFAIR such a hook example ships with SVN.

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Matthias Andree