Are svn properties in bzr-svn important?

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 12:22 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote: 
> Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 10:16 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> >>>  * Looking at bzr:merge for a revision X will contain one line Y and
> >>> suggest that Y was merged in X, whereas it was perhaps actually merged
> >>> in X-2.
> >> Why wouldn't it be marked in X-2, then?
> > The file property would be set in X-2, but as they mean nothing to
> > Subversion users, the property would keep the same value in X-1 and X.
> 
> So perhaps we can set it on all bazaar commits, and include enough
> metadata to ignore it on X-1.
> 
> For example:
> bzr:merges="450 427"

> This would indicate that revision 450 merged revision 427.  It would
> affect the parents list for revision 450, but not the parents list for
> revision 451.
revno's won't be sufficient - bzr:merge contains the list of
non-lefthand side parents of a revision.

The problem with using revids instead is that there's no way of knowing
the revid of the revision you're going to write until the commit is
finished. 

Cheers,

Jelmer
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