It looks like every branch reintegration to trunk has caused an extra entry to be added in the trunk's svn:mergeinfo property. Is this SVN behavior or TortoiseSVN - and is there anything bad about it? I didn't think SVN used properties as a core part of functionality, only for additional things, so I was a bit surprised to see it.
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svn:mergeinfo is the property used by more recent versions of SVN to track which branches/revisions have been merged into a particular stream. This allows you not to have to think about it when doing said merges. The SVN Book is a pretty good resource!
I'm pretty sure this isn't a TortoiseSVN thing.
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True, from http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.branchmerge.basicmerging.html: "The basic mechanism Subversion uses to track changesets—that is, which changes have been merged to which branches—is by recording data in properties. Specifically, merge data is tracked in the svn:mergeinfo property attached to files and directories." – Jaco Briers Nov 05 '10 at 08:14