On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 12:17:15PM -0400, David Carson wrote: > To that end, I installed 1.7.0-rc2 with a snapshot of our repository, so I > could experiment and see for myself. I did a simple merge from one branch > to another. I was disappointed to see that the same miscellaneous group of > files and directories below the top-level are having their snv:mergeinfo > modified, even though they do not participate in the change. I guess I am > not reading the documentation for 1.7 correctly, because I thought that this > was one of the major changes; namely, that any object which is not affected > by the merged changes would not have its svn:mergeinfo property changed.
Did the change you were merging contain svn:mergeinfo property changes? If so, those will be applied to the working copy. If the revision rN you are merging from 1.2 into 1.3 was itself the result of a merge, and this merge was done with a 1.6 client, this would explain the problem.
