Remove unnecessary svn:mergeinfo properties
When I merge stuff in my repository Subversion wants to add/change a lot of svn:mergeinfo properties to files that are totally unrelated to the things that I want to merge.
Questions about this behaviour have been asked before here on Stack Overflow:
- SVN Mergeinfo properties on paths other than the working copy root
- Is there a way to turn TortoiseSVN using svn:mergeinfo off?
From what I understand from the topics mentioned above it looks like a lot of files in my repository have explicit svn:mergeinfo properties on them, when they shouldn't. The advice is to reduce the amount and only put those properties on relevant files/folders.
So now my question: how can I easily remove those unneeded properties? I'm using TortoiseSVN, but I am reluctant to manually check/fix hundreds of files. Is there an easier way to remove those unnecessary svn:mergeinfo properties?
P.S. I'm not looking for C++ SVN API code.
Answer
Here is another way to delete all sub tree svn:mergeinfo properties but not at the root folder (this is needed for branching to work properly).
From the root of the project do:
svn propdel svn:mergeinfo -R
svn revert .
svn ci -m "Removed mergeinfo"