On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 1:44 AM, Douglas Wilson <douglasg.wil...@gmail.com> wrote: > If I have a sparse checkout of /trunk (say it has subdirectories dir1 > and dir2, so I just have a working copy of /trunk/dir1), commit some > changes, switch my checkout to a branch, then try to merge the changes > I just committed, the mergeinfo property gets revisions marked with > "*" in the branch root, and updates mergeinfo in the directory with > the changes. > > Is there any reason the merge has to have the "*", since there were no > changes outside of my working copy?
Is this still the case with 1.7? Could you test that? There were a lot of merge-tracking improvements and bugfixes in 1.7, but I'm not sure if this particular issue has been addressed. See http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.7.html#merge-tracking-enhancements. -- Johan
