On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 09:20:35AM -0800, Ben Reser wrote: > As we approach a 1.9 release (not sure what our time frame for release is but > I > think we were expecting roughly a year in Berlin last year) I think there are > several issues that need to be discussed and final decisions made. I don't > see > any of this as a blocker to 1.9.0-alpha1, but they also provide us questions > that we may want some help from our users in answering. This are the things > that come to mind, I may have forgotten some so please add to the list if you > have things. > > 1) svnauth vs svn auth: Right now it's a separate command. I believe this > functionality is a client function. It really shouldn't be relegated to a > separate program. Additionally, the separate command is one letter off from > the svnauthz program that we already have. Since this is functionality that > is > entirely client specific and is intended to be used with the command line > client, I'd argue we should move it into the client as a subcommand. This is > going to take some work since svnauth has subcommands already.
My intention is to move into 'svn'. I have started this already but got side-tracked and didn't get to finish it. I'll try to pick this up. > 3) Merge tool UI from the conflict resolver. Trunk currently changes 'm' into > running the external merge tool first if it exists. But this eliminates the > ability to run the internal merge tool directly if you have an external tool > configured. I vetoed the backport to 1.8.x, but I don't believe the UI > concerns I raised have been settled. That's because of my fix for issue #4426 (r1524145). I'd be fine with reverting that change if no better solution can be found.
