Re: [boost] svnmerge spews all over trac...

From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-11 22:15:16

Rene Rivera wrote:
> Eric Niebler wrote:
>> Replying to self ...
>>
>> Eric Niebler wrote:
>>> If the trac plugin didn't try to close bugs that were already closed, I 
>>> think the problem would go away, right?
>> Or rather, I think the track plugin should ignore changes made to a branch.
> 
> Well since svn doesn't make a distinction between branches and 
> non-branches that's not really possible. 

I don't really know how it works, but that seems unlikely to me. It's 
probably implemented as a trigger, which could check the commit url and 
take action depending on whether it contains "/branches/" or not.

> And besides, I can see it being 
> useful to work on bugs in a branch, like say a feature branch.

I think it's reasonable to restrict the automatic closing of trac 
tickets to commits on trunk.

-- 
Eric Niebler
Boost Consulting
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