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Re: [PATCH] In partial SVN merges, the ranges contains additional character "*"

From
EWEric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date
Mar 7, 2013, 10:44 UTC
Message-ID
<20130307104441.GA25337@dcvr.yhbt.net>
In-Reply-To
<000001ce1ab2$903fbc40$b0bf34c0$@certicon.cz>
(adding Sam to the Cc:, I rely on him for SVN merge knowledge)
Jan Pešta <jan.pesta@certicon.cz> wrote:
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> See http://www.open.collab.net/community/subversion/articles/merge-info.html
> Extract:
> The range r30430:30435 that was added to 1.5.x in this merge has a '*'
> suffix for 1.5.x\www.
> This '*' is the marker for a non-inheritable mergeinfo range.
> The '*' means that only the path on which the mergeinfo is explicitly set
> has had this range merged into it.
Jan: can you write a better commit message to explain what your
patch fixes/changes, and why we do it?
Something like:
  Subject: [PATCH] git svn: ignore partial svn:mergeinfo
  <explain why we ignore partial svn:mergeinfo in the body>
See Documentation/SubmittingPatches for hints.  Thanks!
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> Signed-off-by: Jan Pesta <jan.pesta@certicon.cz>
> ---
>  perl/Git/SVN.pm | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/perl/Git/SVN.pm b/perl/Git/SVN.pm
> index 0ebc68a..74d49bb 100644
> --- a/perl/Git/SVN.pm
> +++ b/perl/Git/SVN.pm
> @@ -1493,6 +1493,11 @@ sub lookup_svn_merge {
>  	my @merged_commit_ranges;
>  	# find the tip
>  	for my $range ( @ranges ) {
> +		if ($range =~ /[*]$/) {
> +			warn "W:Ignoring partial merge in svn:mergeinfo "
> +				."dirprop: $source:$range\n";
> +			next;
> +		}
>  		my ($bottom, $top) = split "-", $range;
>  		$top ||= $bottom;
>  		my $bottom_commit = $gs->find_rev_after( $bottom, 1, $top );
> -- 
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  1. In partial SVN merges, the ranges contains additional character "*"Jan Pešta, Mar 6, 2013
  2. Junio C HamanoMar 7, 2013
  3. Eric WongMar 7, 2013

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