Andy Singleton wrote on Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 12:16:26 -0400: > I am only asking you to give up ONE THING: subtree merginfo. To > succeed, we have to get rid of both parts of it. We have to get rid > of the subtree info, and we have to get rid of the fussy little > merginfo format.
Why is the /format/ relevant? Why can't you --- as Paul already said --- just enforce a policy "Don't do subtree merges"? > If newmerge is successful and we want people to > move to it, we can force the conversion by asking "svn" to read the > old merginfo and write some information into the new format. And rewriting of the mergeinfo throughout the repository's history?
