Stefan Sperling wrote on Mon, May 23, 2011 at 14:11:44 +0200: > We can always add a new property (e.g. svn:mergeinfo2) if we want > to add information or use a new syntax.
Err... not easily. The filesystem layer has certain optimizations for efficiently finding paths with svn:mergeinfo set on them (e.g., minfo-count in fsfs), so if we introduce a new property then we won't be able to efficiently find it in old servers. Unless we encode its location into the existing svn:mergeinfo properties in a format that 1.6.17 would consider valid but wouldn't affect its mergeinfo calculations.... but that's impractical.
