[REVIEW] Ch4. Branching and Merging - Advanced Merging
Blair Zajac
blair at orcaware.com
Thu Jun 12 12:16:36 CDT 2008
Paul Burba wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Took a look at the advanced merging section of chapter 4. Everything
> that's there looks good, my only concerns are what is not not
> mentioned:
>
> 1) The fact the svn:mergeinfo is inheritable (particularly the
> limitations of this in mixed-revision working copies).
>
> 2) Non-inheritable mergeinfo
>
> 3) Empty mergeinfo
>
> 4) Copy/move can produce svn:mergeinfo
>
> 5) Implicit mergeinfo (i.e. "natural history")
>
> 6) Mergeinfo elision
>
> Is it worth mentioning of these subjects or do these get into too much
> detail for the book?
Not being an author on the book, I don't have much say, but I would like to see
these topics discussed. Otherwise we'll have to forward people to read your
article :)
http://blogs.open.collab.net/svn/2008/05/subversion-15-1.html
Blair
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