Re: [random line of thought] Hiding svn:mergeinfo

2011-05-18 Thread Paul Burba
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Mark Phippard wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:55 AM, Daniel Shahaf > wrote: >> 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_r

Re: [random line of thought] Hiding svn:mergeinfo

2011-05-18 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Paul Burba wrote on Wed, May 18, 2011 at 09:51:17 -0400: > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:41 AM, Hyrum K Wright wrote: > > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Bert Huijben wrote: > >> It would completely break mergetracking for about a dozen reasons :( > >> > >> I'll answer more detailed later, but this

Re: [random line of thought] Hiding svn:mergeinfo

2011-05-18 Thread Mark Phippard
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:55 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > 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?  

Re: [random line of thought] Hiding svn:mergeinfo

2011-05-18 Thread Hyrum K Wright
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Paul Burba wrote: ... >>> [I suspect it might, but want to hear others' thoughts before laying >>> out my own.] >> >> I don't think hiding it completely is the way to go, but there has >> been some half-implemented code to filter propchanges from various >> operati

Re: [random line of thought] Hiding svn:mergeinfo

2011-05-18 Thread Paul Burba
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:41 AM, Hyrum K Wright wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Bert Huijben wrote: >> 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 coul

Re: [random line of thought] Hiding svn:mergeinfo

2011-05-18 Thread Hyrum K Wright
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Bert Huijben wrote: > 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, yo

RE: [random line of thought] Hiding svn:mergeinfo

2011-05-18 Thread Bert Huijben
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