[Svnmerge] Merging for foriegn repositories

[Archie Cobbs]

Blair Zajac wrote:
>>> Yes, you can merge from a foreign repository.  I do it all the time.
>>
>> Hmm.. last time I checked adding files with history didn't work.
>> Try this with your version (backslashes denote line wraps)...
> 
> I see.  I guess I've been lucky so far that I haven't seen that problem :)
> 
> This doesn't look that easy to work around.  Doing an 'svn diff' doesn't 
> show where it comes from, but 'svn log -v' does, but then we'd end up 
> parsing what it does.
> 
> Well, all the work we're talking about seems to be going in the 
> direction of svk, so maybe we shouldn't put too much effort in 
> supporting these features.

I think fixing "svn merge" from remote repos would be phenomenally
useful (look at all the folks who use CVSup (e.g. FreeBSD community)
to mirror a CVS repo). It would greatly expand the applications for
svnmerge, making it into a repository mirroring tool too.

The hard issue is what to do with an add-with-history.

-Archie

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