[Svnmerge] svnmerge forget?

Jim Fulton jim at zope.com
Fri Sep 23 13:28:21 PDT 2005


Giovanni Bajo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> another option I would like to have in svnmerge is one to not show me
> anymore a set of revisions. This is handy if you maintain a release branch
> with svnmerge. In a release branch, you want only certain patches to go in
> from, while probably most of the patches to head are inappropriate. So, the
> idea is that you run "svnmerge avail" and you see all the new revisions in
> head (possibly pruned -- as we're discussing). You then review the logs and
> decide which patches are worth to be merged in the release branch, and which
> not. Then, you run "svnmerge merge" to do the actual merges.
> 
> When everything is done, there is no way to tell svnmerge "these other
> revisions I will never merge in this branch, so don't show them to me
> anymore". One can of course edit the svnmerge-integrated property manually,
> but I believe this breaks encapsulation: we should provide anything needed
> to handle that.
> 
> So I'm proposing something like "svnmerge forget -r478-500" which will
> basically just add the specified revisions to the integrated revisions.
> Comments?

Sound great to me.

+1

Jim




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