[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] What do we want to bring from CVS to Subversion

[Jim Fulton]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> Barry Warsaw wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 15:23, Jim Fulton wrote:
>>
>>
>>> 2. Convert the mainline history, but leave off the branches.
>>
>>
>>
>> Would this mean we'd lose the log messages too? 
> 
> 
> Yes, you'd lose the branch log messages.
> 
>  > If so -1 because often
> 
>> merge messages aren't very helpful. "merged foo-bar-branch to head"
>> would suck if you couldn't at least see the log messages on that branch.
> 
> 
> I hate to see merge messages like this. In fact, when people work on 
> branches,
> I'd like to see the informative messages in the merge not on the branch 
> work.

The reason that I hate merge messages like this is that I find it
very difficult to find the branch checkin messages in thye log. It's
possible, but so difficult that I generally would rather not
bother.

Jim

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