Remove unnecessary svn:mergeinfo properties

Question

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 wa

Answer 1

To do changes in a directory structure, this would be (non-DOS 'find' only):

find . -path "*/.svn" -prune -or -exec svn propdel svn:mergeinfo '{}' \;

Running an 1.6.12 client connected to an 1.5 server, I have a similar problem; there is a subdirectory in the project which needs its own svn:mergeinfo, but having 121 such entries (including 5 directories below ./var with "svn:ignore *") seems somewhat inappropriate. Thus, it would be nice to have a (e.g. Python) script which is able to remove the obviously superfluous merge info and tell about other differences ...