merging doesn't work across repositories

[Ben Collins-Sussman]

How can we be more clear?  In
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.branchmerge.advanced.html#svn.branchmerge.advanced.advancedsyntax
, where we explain the 'full' syntax of the merge command, we
explicitly say:

"Merging from foreign repositories
    While it's possible to run a command such as svn merge -r 100:200
http://svn.foreignproject.com/repos/trunk, the resultant patch will
also lack any historical merge metadata. At time of this writing,
Subversion has no way of representing different repository URLs within
the svn:mergeinfo property."


On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 1:47 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
>  perhaps i missed it, but the section on "merging" doesn't make it
> abundantly clear that merging doesn't work across repositories.  and
> the general structure of the "svn merge" arguments might lead one to
> think that it does.
>
> rday
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