On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:52:01AM -0400, David Carson wrote: > > We could allow the existing elision code to be invoked without running > > a merge. An option like --elide-mergeinfo could be added to the > > 'svn mergeinfo' command for this purpose. Would this be useful? > > > > Yes, I think such an option would probably be useful. What I really need, > based on how much information is currently in my props, is something like: > - try to elide (maybe using your new option) > - output says you can't because you are missing a, b and c; suggests I use > --record-only or do the missing merge if it is really missing > Then I can iterate over this sequence until I succeed and the elision > occurs.
Hi David, I started some work on this but the results were not as fruitful as I was hoping for. Please see this thread on the developer list for related discussion: http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2011-09/0243.shtml This post by Paul Burba describes the current limitations of mergeinfo elision and suggests a better algorithm: http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2011-09/0248.shtml If you like, you could try to implement this algorithm in a wrapper script to see how well it works.
