[Svnmerge] questions about merge tracking

[Giovanni Bajo]

Hello,

I began using svnmerge for some real development (I'm using my Python
version, so I hope some of the below issues are not just bugs on my side). I
have some questions and ideas for enhancements:

- The "svnmerge merge" commit message (produced by -f) could be more
informative. For instance, it could also report the original logs of the
revisions merged in. Otherwise, running "svn log" in the branch produces a
totally uninformative list of other revision numbers to look at. Opinions?
If we add this, should it be the default? Should there be an option to
enable/disable it?

- I'm using Trac for my projects, so I would not mind having hyperlinks
working in my commit messages. It is sufficient to put revision numbers in
squares (eg. [345]). I understand this is not something everybody will want,
so I was wondering about adding an option for it. Of course, I could write
an external script "tracify.py" to post-process commit.txt, but I figured I
would ask if there is interest in such an option.

- Currently, when you run "svnmerge avail", it gets the latest revision in
the head, and assumes that the range 1:HEAD_REVISION, subtracted with all
the ranges which are already merged, are all revisions available for
merging. This is of course not true: in that range, there might be many
commits done on other branches which have nothing to do with either our
branch nor the trunk. In one setup, I keep many totally different projects
within the same subversion repository, so assuming that every commit
happened to head is absolutely suboptimal. In fact, the merge itself will be
done through a commit, and that very commit will be shown in "svnmerge
avail" next time you run it (after another commit on head).
So, I believe that "svnmerge avail" should only show commits which happened
on head. To do this, it could invoke "svn log
head -rXX:HEAD --stop-on-copy", where XX is the latest integrated revision.
Then, it could parse the output to extract the revision numbers. I quickly
tried with: svn log --stop-on-copy --xml | grep -P 'revision="\d+"' and it
seems to be feasable.
Comments?

Thanks for this wonderful tool!
-- 
Giovanni Bajo