svn mergeinfo updates needed in 1.5 book

[C. Michael Pilato]

As you realized, we are aware of this incorrectness, and will be working in 
the coming weeks to fix it.


Peter Wemm wrote:
> Chapter 4, "Basic merging", "Mergeinfo and Previews" has incorrect
> information in it.
> 
> For example, the output of the 'svn mergeinfo .' command isn't
> correct.  The tests I did suggest that --from-source isn't a valid
> switch anymore.  It appears you always have to specify the source, not
> "." as in the examples.  Also, you have to specify --show-revs with
> either "merged" or "eligible", both aren't just shown to you
> automatically like the examples suggest.
> 
> Or.. I'm doing it wrong.  Which is also a very good possibility.
> 
> For example, the book says:
> $ svn mergeinfo .
> Path: .
>   Source path: /trunk
>     Merged ranges: r341:390
>     Eligible ranges: r391:395
> 
> but, if I try this on the svn-1.5 repo, I see:
> 
> peter at svn[11:56pm]/s/peter/svn-1.5-101> svn mergeinfo .
> subversion/svn/main.c:2035: (apr_err=205000)
> svn: Try 'svn help' for more info
> subversion/svn/mergeinfo-cmd.c:80: (apr_err=205000)
> svn: Path '' is not a URL
> 
> 
> The actual commands that work:
> peter at svn[11:57pm]/s/peter/svn-1.5-103> svn mergeinfo
> http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/
> r29085
> r29091
> ...
> 
> peter at svn[11:58pm]/s/peter/svn-1.5-105> svn mergeinfo --show-revs
> merged http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/
> r29085
> r29091
> r29094
> r29098
> ...
> peter at svn[11:58pm]/s/peter/svn-1.5-106> svn mergeinfo --show-revs
> eligible http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/
> r29083
> r29090
> r29092
> r29093
> ...
> 
> And the example using --from-source:
> 
> $ svn mergeinfo --from-source \
> http://svn.example.com/repos/calc/branches/other-branch  .
> Path: .
>   Source path: /branches/other-branch
>     Merged ranges:
>     Eligible ranges: r360:364
> 
> .. doesn't work.  there isn't a --from-source switch according to 'svn
> help mergeinfo'.
> 
> May I humbly ask that somebody could do a sweep over this stuff who
> knows what is actually going on here..
> 
> Oops.  I just discovered that issue #109 is about this.  Sorry for the
> dup.  Please consider this both as begging and as a bump request for
> #109.


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