[Svnmerge] Remembering --bidirectional status

[Blair Zajac]

Daniel Rall wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Nov 2006, Blair Zajac wrote:
> ...
>> However, how is the svn merge tracking in 1.5 or greater going to work?  Is it 
>> always going to effectively have the -b flag set?
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> We had this discussion before, but I would much rather see the -b
>> flag always set to reduce the possibility of errors.  If the svn 1.5
>> merge tracking will always have bidirectional support on, then I
>> think svnmerge.py should too.
> 
> I tend to think so, too.  Why is bi-directional support in svnmerge.py
> off by default (other than it being added later on); does it result in
> a performance problem?

Yes.  IIRC, Giovanni had performance concerns about using bidirectional support 
with svn repositories that aren't on the LAN.  I was outvoted :)

Regards,
Blair