Konstantin,

On 4/15/14, 5:35 PM, Konstantin Kolinko wrote:
> 2014-04-16 1:24 GMT+04:00 Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net>:
>> All,
>>
>> I've been back-porting some patches from Tomcat 8 to Tomcat 7 today, and
>> I can see that I'm modifying the mergeinfo for things like:
>>
>> Sending        java/org/apache/tomcat/util/bcel
>> Sending        java/org/apache/tomcat/util/codec
>> Sending        java/org/apache/tomcat/util/http/fileupload
>> Sending        webapps/examples/WEB-INF/classes/websocket/tc7
>> Sending        webapps/examples/websocket-deprecated
>>
>> Since I'm not modifying any of those linked directories, should I
>> "revert" them before committing? Or is it better to have the mergeinfo
>> attached to those for some reason?
>>
> 
> What is your svn client?
> 
> SVN 1.8 (TortoiseSVN 1.8) did not update those mergeinfos when I did a merge.
> But it updated them when I did a "record only" merge.

$ svn --version
svn, version 1.8.5 (r1542147)
   compiled Dec 19 2013, 23:09:58 on x86_64-apple-darwin13.0.0

> Anyway I do not know of any harm from those mergeinfos. Both reverting
> and non-reverting are OK with me.
> 
> BTW, TortoiseSVN released an update yesterday. (HTTPS clients such as
> svn are vulnerable to heartbleed from rogue servers).

I use svn CLI (shown above) and Eclipse somewhat interchangeably. I
usually use the CLI because I can see the whole diff before I commit all
at once, then just change the command to "commit" and know it will
commit exactly those changes. Using Eclipse's GUI just feels slower and
more awkward to me.

-chris

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