[Svnmerge] Fwd: [PATCH] preserving mods to renamed files/directories

[Giovanni Bajo]

On 12/07/2007 20.19, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 01:00:08PM -0500, Archie Cobbs wrote:
>>    I'm not sure if this is directly relevant to this issue, but here's a
>>    possibly useful idea to help with situations like this....
>>    In the same way that "svn diff" allows you to plug in your own diff(1)
>>    command using the "--diff-cmd" flag, why not have add a flag like
>>    "--merge-cmd" to svnmerge that allows you to plug in your own merge
>>    command ( i.e., it would be used in place of "svn merge")?
>>    Then, instead of folding special merge functionality into svnmerge,
>>    once could just provide their own "merge" tool that can be plugged
>>    into svnmerge. Such a merge tool might better handle the
>>    "rename/merge" problem, etc.
> 
> I like that idea a lot!

+1 from me too!
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Giovanni Bajo