[Svnmerge] bug when trying to block/merge revision w/ encoded text that the terminal's locale cannot support

[Jon Schewe]

Blair Zajac wrote:
>
> On Aug 15, 2009, at 8:22 PM, Jon Schewe wrote:
>
>> Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
>>> On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Brett Cannon<brett at python.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> A potential fix
>>>> was suggested by one of the Python developers at
>>>> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-committers/2009-August/000608.html
>>>>
>>>> in order to avoid encoding differences.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Patches would be welcome.  Sadly, svn-1.5 and higher have made
>>> svnmerge.py somewhat irrelevant, so it's not particularly likely
>>> you'll see this implemented otherwise.
>> I'm sad to hear that people feel that way. The primary way that I use
>> svnmerge.py is to do developer branches. This is still not supported by
>> svn-1.5 and higher. So I see a real need for svnmerge.py.
>
> Do you just mean the fact that you need to delete and recopy the
> branch after you do a --reintegrate merge?
Yes, plus I need to delete my working directory and wait for everything
to download again, which is a real pain and highly confusing for many
developers.

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