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Re: Merging and gratuitous display of explicit mergeinfo.

From: Paul Burba <ptburba_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 09:47:21 -0500

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Paul Burba <ptburba_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 1:19 AM, Karl Fogel <kfogel_at_red-bean.com> wrote:
> > At http://pastebin.ca/931468, you can see some merge behavior that
> > surprised me. I merged one revision from trunk to branch, affecting
> > two files. But afterwards, my formerly pristine branch working copy
> > showed *10* files changed: two of them were the ones I expected, and
> > the others had property changes to -- you guessed it -- svn:mergeinfo.
>
> A theory on what might have happened:
>
> 1) These files all had explicit svn:mergeinfo in trunk and 1.5.x:
>
>
> www/images/subversion-diagram.png
>
> www/images/subversion_logo-200x173.png
>
> www/images/subversion_logo_hor-468x64.png
>
> www/images/subversion_logo-384x332.png
> notes/reintegrate-todo.txt
>
> notes/tree-conflicts/scratch-pad.txt
>
> 2) Mike upgrades the server to 1.5.0 alpha 2
>
> 3) Hyrum checks out a new 1.5.x WC, which includes explicit mergeinfo
> on the six files.
>
> 4) Mike filters out all existing mergeinfo from the repository and
> converts svnmerge-integrated props to svn:mergeinfo. The six files in
> 1) no longer have mergeinfo.
>
> 6) In r29759 Hyrum merges some changes from trunk to his 1.5.x WC,
> which still has explicit mergeinfo on the 'six'. This mergeinfo
> doesn't exist in the repository so when he commits the backport we see
> mergeinfo added to the six files:
>
> C:\SVN\src-branch>svn info
> Path: .
> URL: http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/branches/1.5.x
> Repository Root: http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn
> Repository UUID: 612f8ebc-c883-4be0-9ee0-a4e9ef946e3a
> Revision: 29766
> Node Kind: directory
> Schedule: normal
> Last Changed Author: kfogel
> Last Changed Rev: 29766
> Last Changed Date: 2008-03-07 01:30:08 -0500 (Fri, 07 Mar 2008)
>
> C:\SVN\src-branch>svn diff -r29758:29759 www
>
> Property changes on: www\images\subversion-diagram.png
> ___________________________________________________________________
> Added: svn:mergeinfo
> Merged /trunk/www/images/subversion-diagram.png:r29567-29568,29578,29678
>
>
> Property changes on: www\images\subversion_logo-200x173.png
> ___________________________________________________________________
> Added: svn:mergeinfo
> Merged /trunk/www/images/subversion_logo-200x173.png:r29567-29568,29578,29678
>
>
> Property changes on: www\images\subversion_logo_hor-468x64.png
> ___________________________________________________________________
> Added: svn:mergeinfo
> Merged /trunk/www/images/subversion_logo_hor-468x64.png:r29567-29568,29578,29678
>
>
> Property changes on: www\images\subversion_logo-384x332.png
> ___________________________________________________________________
> Added: svn:mergeinfo
> Merged /trunk/www/images/subversion_logo-384x332.png:r29567-29568,29578,29678
>
> C:\SVN\src-branch>svn diff -r29758:29759 notes
>
> Property changes on: notes\reintegrate-todo.txt
> ___________________________________________________________________
> Added: svn:mergeinfo
> Merged /branches/sqlite-mergeinfo-without-mergeinfo/reintegrate-branch-TODO:r28127-28195
> Merged /branches/whole-branch-merge/reintegrate-branch-TODO:r28245-28427
> Merged /branches/reintegrate/reintegrate-branch-TODO:r28428-28977
> Merged /trunk/notes/reintegrate-todo.txt:r29567-29568,29578,29678
> Merged /branches/sqlite-deep-copies/reintegrate-branch-TODO:r28196-28244
> Merged /branches/sqlite-node-origins/reintegrate-branch-TODO:r27841-27889
> Merged /branches/mergeinfoless-copies/reintegrate-branch-TODO:r27771-28001
>
>
> Property changes on: notes\tree-conflicts\scratch-pad.txt
> ___________________________________________________________________
> Added: svn:mergeinfo
> Merged /trunk/notes/tree-conflicts/scratch-pad.txt:r29567-29568,29578,29678
>
> 7) Now Karl updates his 1.5.x WC or checks out a new one, either way
> he gets the subtree mergeinfo from 6, so diff/stat aren't going to
> show anything unusual.
>
> Paul

This definitely seems to be what happened, if I checkout a shiny new
WC and attempt to replicate Hyrum's r29759, there is not explicit
mergeinfo on the six and none gets set/modified (except on the root of
course):

C:\SVN>svn co http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/branches/1.5.x@29758 1.5.x -q

C:\SVN>svn pg svn:mergeinfo -R 1.5.x
1.5.x - /trunk:1-29080,29085-29089,29091,29094-29107,29111,29114,29117,29126-29127,29129-29133,29135-29150,29153-29164,29166,29174,29176-29186,29189,29193-
29194,29198-29200,29202-29206,29208-29251,29254-29256,29261,29267-29273,29277,29280-29281,29284,29287-29303,29305-29307,29309-29325,29327-29343,29345-29348
,29358-29379,29381-29392,29397,29399,29401,29409,29412,29414-29415,29417-29423,29425-29426,29429,29433-29434,29436-29438,29440-29447,29449-29466,29468-2947
8,29482,29484,29486-29487,29489,29491,29493,29496,29498,29508,29527-29528,29539-29540,29546,29553,29556,29559,29565,29567-29569,29571-29578,29583,29591,295
94,29614,29619,29623,29625-29626,29634,29671-29672

C:\SVN>svn merge http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk 1.5.x -c29678
--- Merging r29678 into '1.5.x':
U 1.5.x\subversion\tests\cmdline\getopt_tests.py

C:\SVN>svn st 1.5.x
 M 1.5.x
M 1.5.x\subversion\tests\cmdline\getopt_tests.py

C:\SVN>svn pg svn:mergeinfo 1.5.x -R
1.5.x - /trunk:1-29080,29085-29089,29091,29094-29107,29111,29114,29117,29126-29127,29129-29133,29135-29150,29153-29164,29166,29174,29176-29186,29189,29193-
29194,29198-29200,29202-29206,29208-29251,29254-29256,29261,29267-29273,29277,29280-29281,29284,29287-29303,29305-29307,29309-29325,29327-29343,29345-29348
,29358-29379,29381-29392,29397,29399,29401,29409,29412,29414-29415,29417-29423,29425-29426,29429,29433-29434,29436-29438,29440-29447,29449-29466,29468-2947
8,29482,29484,29486-29487,29489,29491,29493,29496,29498,29508,29527-29528,29539-29540,29546,29553,29556,29559,29565,29567-29569,29571-29578,29583,29591,295
94,29614,29619,29623,29625-29626,29634,29671-29672,29678

Seems if we just remove the mergeinfo on the six files in 1.5.x and
commit that, this problem will go away no?

Paul

> > Am I merely revisiting an old discussion here? Has this been hashed
> > out already? Was it already proposed that 'svn status' and 'svn diff'
> > not show changes to svn:mergeinfo by default (and take a -g flag to
> > mean "do count svn:mergeinfo property changes")?
>
> Not sure what svn st

  ^^^

ignore, just an incomplete thought.

> > -Karl
>

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