[Svnmerge] bug when trying to block/merge revision w/ encoded text that the terminal's locale cannot support

Blair Zajac blair at orcaware.com
Sat Aug 15 23:28:14 PDT 2009


On Aug 15, 2009, at 8:22 PM, Jon Schewe wrote:

> Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Brett Cannon<brett at python.org>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> A potential fix
>>> was suggested by one of the Python developers at
>>> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-committers/2009-August/000608.html
>>> in order to avoid encoding differences.
>>>
>>
>> Patches would be welcome.  Sadly, svn-1.5 and higher have made
>> svnmerge.py somewhat irrelevant, so it's not particularly likely
>> you'll see this implemented otherwise.
> I'm sad to hear that people feel that way. The primary way that I use
> svnmerge.py is to do developer branches. This is still not supported  
> by
> svn-1.5 and higher. So I see a real need for svnmerge.py.

Do you just mean the fact that you need to delete and recopy the  
branch after you do a --reintegrate merge?

Regards,
Blair



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