[Svnmerge] svnmerge avail log ordering

[Archie Cobbs]

Alan Barrett wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Archie Cobbs wrote:
>> While we're making changes I'd like to propose that the default
>> ordering for the log messages displayed by "svnmerge avail -l"
>> be changed to show most recent first, as "svn log" does, instead
>> of oldest first.
> 
> No, please don't change that.  Merges should (usually) be done
> (approximately) in numeric order, and when I review the output of
> "svnmerge avail -l" to decide which revisions to merge, it's very useful
> for the output to (approximately) match the order in which I will do the
> merges.

Fair enough.. though I'd argue that if you aren't reviewing all
of the changes which might be required for a correct merge every
time you do a merge, then the tool you're using is not the problem :-)
(of course, for a single merge operation, svnmerge doesn't care what
order you list the revisions in on the command line).

In any case I'd be happy with a flag, e.g., "-R" (reverse) or something.

-Archie

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