Stefan: > I'm regularly using the svn mergeinfo normalizer myself. It should suit your > requirements quite well, but you'd be aware that it hasn't been tested > thoroughly by a lot of people, since it's a new tool in the not yet released > 1.10 development branch. > I will test out this tool. However, we are running on CentOS 6.9 and I may not be able to get all its dependencies installed. > To get some basic documentation about what the tool does, best start with the > integrated help (svn-mergeinfo-normalizer help). > In your case all you might actually need is to run "svn-mergeinfo-normalizer > normalize --remove-obsoletes" followed by committing the changes. Carefully > verify the changes before committing them. As said: The tool hasn't gotten > much test coverage by a broader audience yet. > Yes, I am very careful about inspecting all changes before committing a change. > If you wanna give it a quick try and are running on Windows, there are > prebuilt binaries available for MaxSVN (disclaimer: that's a development > binary distribution of SVN I'm > maintaining):http://www.luke1410.de/typo3/index.php?id=97 > <http://www.luke1410.de/typo3/index.php?id=97>. Download MaxSVN > trunk-dev-r1771118-1 and run svn-mergeinfo-normalizer contained in the > package. I'm not aware of other prebuilt sources of the current SVN > development branch (otherwise I'd have listed them here as other examples). > If I can’t get the tool running on our Linux systems, I will definitely check this out. > On a more general note on your questions: > Is it safe to do that (i.e. remove the entries for obsolete/removed branches)? > > Kind of. If your working process means that you are not going to reinstate > the removed branch in a future revision again to merge remaining revision > from it to some other branch, I'd personally consider it a safe habit to drop > the then obsolete mergeinfos. If your work process differs, you should not > remove it though IMO, since then you might cause conflicts on merges and also > lose the information about what was merged of the other branch (if it later > is reinstated). > We don’t plan to ever reuse those branches again, and in fact most of them will be deleted.
Thanks again for all your comments. I’ll report back with my findings when I get a chance to run this tool sometime later this week. Alfred
