Block pre-Subversion 1.5 clients

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jul 28, 2008, at 19:00, William Siegrist wrote:

> On Jul 28, 2008, at 4:52 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> On Jul 28, 2008, at 18:34, William Siegrist wrote:
>>
>>> On Jul 28, 2008, at 4:25 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>>
>>>> Should we block access to pre-Subversion 1.5 clients to commit  
>>>> to the
>>>> repository, so that we can use the new Subversion 1.5 merge  
>>>> tracking?
>>>>
>>>> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/
>>>> svn.branchmerge.advanced.html#svn.branchmerge.advanced.pre1.5client 
>>>> s
>>>
>>> The server is still running v1.4. I do not have any plans to  
>>> upgrade anytime soon.
>>
>> Gotcha. That explains why I didn't see svn:mergeinfo properties  
>> added though I am using 1.5. Well, we'll keep it in mind for when  
>> the server is updated to 1.5 and beyond.
>
> If v1.5 will help a lot of people, they should speak up so I can  
> gauge the priority of the upgrade.

I think we should start using Subversion 1.5's merge tracking  
(instead of svnmerge.py) on the 1.7 branch, when that's created.