Interesting oddity in convert svn

Eric M. Hopper hopper at omnifarious.org
Tue Oct 16 03:11:05 UTC 2007


In this changeset:

http://selenic.com/repo/hg/rev/ef338e34a9060749ae7cd5c99dd22433eec6ae5f

in this bunch of code:

+        if revnum in self.modulemap:
+            new_module = self.modulemap[revnum]
+            if new_module != self.module:
+                self.module = new_module
+                self.reparent(self.module)
+

it becomes fairly clear that an individual Subversion changeset is
thought to belong to either one branch or another, but not to several
branches.  This assumption is incorrect.

In revision 11 of this repository:

https://svn.generalpresence.com:5131/repos/

I have a change which does indeed simultaneously affect several branches
at the same time.  I was going through the entire repository fiddling
with keyword substitution settings.

How deeply embedded is this assumption?

Thanks,
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