Re: Merging: Noisy branch commits and missing mergeinfo

2010-10-04 Thread David Weintraub
I am not happy with the way Subversion handles merges. It is probably the weakest part of Subversion. In fact, the post-1.5 method of actually tracking merge information is in many ways worse than before. In the pre-1.5 days, In the old days, I could usually do "svn log" and get the information I n

Merging: Noisy branch commits and missing mergeinfo

2010-09-29 Thread Shaun Pinney
Hello all, We've found that committing a branch after a merge shows many files modified, even if they were not changed on the trunk. We'd like a way to reduce the noise. Also, we've like a way to ensure merge info is not accidentally omitted by the user. I'll give the back- ground below: A whi