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Re: possible bug: 'working copy path does not exist' during merge

From: Paul Burba <ptburba_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:36:45 -0400

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 09:16:41AM -0400, Paul Burba wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 02:10:16PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:
>> >> The attached script reproduces a merge that cannot be run
>> >> because it fails with:
>> >> "svn: Working copy path 'alpha.copied' does not exist in repository"
>> >
>> > The script has a small comment typo:
>> >
>> > # In the branch, move a file different to the copy target path
>> >
>> > Should of course be:
>> >
>> > # In the branch, move a different file to the copy target path
>> >
>> > Just to prevent potential confusion,
>> > Stefan
>>
>> Stefan,
>>
>> This looks like another instance of issue #3067. I'm currently
>> looking into another similar problem that Hyrum encountered and will
>> look into this also. More soon...
>
> FYI, the same thing happens when the file is moved in trunk.
> So the script patched as follows also reproduces the problem:
>
> --- svn-merge-wc-path-does-not-exist-in-repo-issue.sh 2008-08-22 13:54:26.000000000 +0200
> +++ svn-merge-wc-path-does-not-exist-in-repo-issue2.sh 2008-08-22 19:22:55.000000000 +0200
> @@ -26,12 +26,12 @@
> svn checkout $trunk_url $trunk
> svn checkout $branch_url $branch
>
> -# Copy a file in trunk
> -svn copy $trunk/alpha $trunk/alpha.copied
> -svn commit -m "copied alpha" $trunk
> +# Move a file in trunk
> +svn move $trunk/alpha $trunk/alpha.moved
> +svn commit -m "moved alpha" $trunk
>
> # In the branch, move a file different to the copy target path.
> -svn mv $branch/beta $branch/alpha.copied
> +svn mv $branch/beta $branch/alpha.moved
> # Committing here does not affect the result!
>
> # Merge the copy into the branch
>
>
> Which, of course, isn't surprising given the way we implement moves.
>
> I still wanted to point this out because knowing all the different
> ways our users can run into this problem helps us recognising
> problem reports as such.
>
> Stefan

Hi Stefan,

The issue-3067-deleted-subtrees branch, which I hope to merge back to
trunk this week, fixes the problems demonstrated by your two script
variants. "Fixes" to the extent that the "svn: Working copy path
'alpha.copied' does not exist in repository" error no longer occurs
and the merge proceeds. There is still a text and tree conflict (this
is with your first script)...

3067>svn merge %sperling_ex_url%/trunk
svn-merge-wc-path-does-not-exist-in-repo-issue\branch
Conflict discovered in
'svn-merge-wc-path-does-not-exist-in-repo-issue/branch/alpha.copied'.
Select: (p) postpone, (df) diff-full, (e) edit,
        (mc) mine-conflict, (tc) theirs-conflict,
        (s) show all options: p
--- Merging r2 through r3 into
'svn-merge-wc-path-does-not-exist-in-repo-issue\branch':
C svn-merge-wc-path-does-not-exist-in-repo-issue\branch\alpha.copied
C svn-merge-wc-path-does-not-exist-in-repo-issue\branch
Summary of conflicts:
  Text conflicts: 1
  Tree conflicts: 1

...but this seems to me to be the correct tree-conflict behavior.
Does that look correct to you?

Paul

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