It would completely break mergetracking for about a dozen reasons :( I'll answer more detailed later, but this would just remove the property everywhere.
And if you could hide it in a better way while still storing it in the wc, you would always forget to commit your mergeinfo only changes. Bert Huijben (Cell phone) From: Daniel Shahaf Sent: woensdag 18 mei 2011 8:55 To: dev@subversion.apache.org Subject: [random line of thought] Hiding svn:mergeinfo Mike remarked that svn:mergeinfo should never have been user-visible... So: what if we made svn_property_kind(NULL, SVN_PROP_MERGEINFO) return a value other than svn_prop_regular_kind, at least when both server and client were ≥1.7? Would that have any useful side-effects? [I suspect it might, but want to hear others' thoughts before laying out my own.]
