[Svnmerge] Regression in Dustin's inter-repository patches?

[Daniel Rall]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:

> On Aug 13, 2007, at 9:05 AM, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
...
> > This is acutally a known limitation in svn itself.  While you can  
> > merge
> > updates ("U") between schemes without a problem, svn doesn't yet  
> > support this for adds ("A").
> >
> > I've been thinking of taking a crack at fixing that in svn at some
> > point, but that's obvioulsy a fairly large learning curve.
> >
> > At this point, to do a merge containing adds, you need to use the '-M'
> > flag to svnmerge to update the properties, then create a patch (with
> > 'svn diff'), apply it (with 'patch'), and manually svn add/svn delete
> > any added/deleted files.  It's annoying, I know -- I have to do it  
> > once every few days.
...
> 	Thanks for the explanation and sorry for the false alarm, I was not  
> aware of that limitation and only came across it when not bothering  
> to mess with my Apache configuration when setting up svn locally I  
> really do hope it gets resolved soon (1.5?) as it imposes  
> considerable constraints on legit work flows (and I'm sure you and I  
> aren't the only ones ;-).
...

Juan, patches fixing this limitation in Subversion would be welcome,
and could still make it into the upcoming 1.5 release.

- Dan
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