Re: Mergeinfo is not per node

2014-07-26 Thread Thomas Ã…kesson
On 22 jul 2014, at 13:40, Julian Foad julianf...@btopenworld.com wrote: Hi Julian, I happened to read this post despite not having much focus on merge functionality. We use Subversion for XML-authoring and we don't support branching/merging of trees, just files. This line of thought approaches

Mergeinfo is not per node

2014-07-22 Thread Julian Foad
and more easily understandable to the user. It seemed a nice idea, but it's wrong. Mergeinfo is not inherently per node. WHY? The content of two branches is usually *different* -- that's the point of branches. In the per-file model of branching used by CVS, for example, each file is branched