[Svnmerge] Ignore initialized rev (was: Re: [PATCH] Cache svn output)

[Raman Gupta]

Rich Williams wrote:
> On 9/21/06, Raman Gupta <rocketraman at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>> > On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Rich Williams wrote:
>> > ...
>> >> - a way of suppressing the revisions which are just setting up
>> branches
>> >> (i.e. Initialized merge tracking via svnmerge).
>>
>> The -b switch handles this fine... or did I misunderstand you?
> 
> Well I'm not sure what we're doing wrong then, because we
> see quite a bit of it - doing 'avail' from our trunk to our live
> branch at the moment, roughly 16% of the available revisions
> are 'Initialized merge tracking' (we have 36 branches just now).
> 
> I've attached a simple script which will reproduce it - it'll destroy
> and create a repository and working directory in the directory it's
> run from, so please don't run it from anywhere important!

Thanks for the repro recipe -- ok, it seems like the -b flag is not
recognizing the "Initialized" revs as reflected (which in a strict
sense they are not). However, when the actual merge is executed
svnmerge.py -b does manage to do the right thing.  Strange.

I'll take a look at this in greater detail tonight hopefully -- I'm
pretty sure its a minor bug somewhere.

Cheers,
Raman