> -----Original Message----- > From: Alfred von Campe [mailto:alf...@von-campe.com] > Sent: 02 June 2017 13:40 > > On Jun 2, 2017, at 8:25, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > > I suspect you're going to hurt yourself if you try this sort of stunt. > > Not that it might not work in theory for some cases, but it's not > > tested and is against the basic "never, never, never, and did I > > mention never alter history" approach to Subversion. > > Why? The svn:mergeinfo property just kept track of what revisions have > been merged from a given branch. If I delete the branch the information > is useless, but there is no automatic cleanup of that property.
How did you "delete the branch"? Unless you performed a dump/filter/load then they are all still there, in all those revisions referenced by the merge info property... Hence the information is still valid. I seem to remember that new commands (or a script) are available to try to consolidate svn:mergeinfo, have you seen or tried any of those? > > What I think you *can* do is an "svnadmin dump | svndumpfilter exclude > > (obsolete branches) | svnadmin load" to another Subversion repo, and > > switch to that repo to have a modified history. > > I don’t want to alter history. I want the older branches around so they > can be browsed and inspected for history. I just want to clean up the > svn:mergeinfo property so it’s easier to read. > > I would love for one of the Subversion developers to chime in here... > > Alfred (I'm not a svn dev) ~ Mark C
