(Dropping 'commits@'.)

Paul Burba wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 9:01 AM,  <rhuij...@apache.org> wrote:
>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1424469&view=rev
>> Log:
>> In the repository-repository diff handler: Don't retrieve pristine 
>> properties  when we already know that there are no differences to
>> report on them.  By checking whether we really need the properties
>> we avoid about 1000 ra calls over running our test suite (ra local).
>> This also resolves many spurious merge changes that just change
>> entry props.
>> 
>> On top of that stop reporting entry prop only changes as a file/directory
>> change to avoid doing unneeded work in the merge and diff handling.
>> 
>> This fixes some issues identified when the merge code was updated to
>> do a better obstruction detection, as originally we just skipped these
>> non-changes there in the merge code.
>> 
>> It is possible that this obscures some tree conflicts which were
>> identified by entry prop changes that should have been detected by the
>> real change down the tree (which might have been skipped).

[...]

> This change breaks mergetracking.  Let's walk-through just the test
> change above (please bear with me, this is a somewhat lengthy
> explanation, but stsp and julianf seem fine with this, so I want to be
> completely clear).

I am happy with the concept of the change as stated in the log message.  I 
haven't reviewed this change and I am not fine with the breakage.  Thanks for 
reviewing and catching this.  


- Julian

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