[Svnmerge] Remembering --bidirectional status

Michael Haggerty mhagger at alum.mit.edu
Thu Nov 9 01:36:32 PST 2006


Hi,

Currently one has to supply the -b/--bidirectional option to many merge
operations.  Presumably, if this option is used inconsistently during
later merges, nonsense will result.

Wouldn't it be nicer to allow the --bidirectional option to be passed to
"svnmerge.py init" and remember it in the svnmerge properties?  If a
directory is initialized in this way, then later operations would
automatically be done in bidirectional mode.

(I can't think of a use case for mixing bidirectional and
non-bidirectional merges between the same two directories, but if there
is, one could add a --nonbidirectional option to override the implicit one.)

Michael



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