[MPlayer-dev-eng] svn policy change [RFC][PATCH]

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 09:35:35PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 12:16:59PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 09:20:59PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > 
> > > strongly disagree, this is identical to the current problematic text
> > > 
> > > its problematic as it makes reversals much harder to review, every reversal
> > > would need to be manualy checked by someone to ensure that its really
> > > reversing what it claims to reverse ...
> > 
> > Assuming that 12345 is the bad revision and it got reverted in 12350,
> > the following command should do the trick:
> > 
> > svn diff -r 12344:12350 stream
> > 
> > It will return no output if there were no changes.
> 
> yes, checking that requires lots of manual work, thats what i said above
> already

Then we clearly have a different concept of lots of manual work.
Running the command above is what I consider easy to verify.

> svn merge will also wipe out the history of the file in the sense that
> svn annotate will not work anymore

You seem to value that more than most of us.  While I do use svn annotate,
I'm accustomed to stepping through various revisions until I find what
I'm looking for.  In any case, you might wish to use the web frontend a
bit more.  For browsing through multiple diffs and annotates I prefer it
over the command line client.

Diego