C. Michael Pilato wrote on Tue, 6 Jan 2009 at 10:24 -0500:
> Damien Deville wrote:
> > Hi subversion devels,
> >
> > I think we found an issue in svn 1.5 mergeinfo
> >
> > Here is the description:
> > - we have a repository using svn 1.5.5/1.5.4 for client and server side
> > (server side was migrated to support mergeinfo)
> > - we have one trunk and some branches
> > - when wanting to merge one revision from trunk to another branch the
> > following error appears:
> >
> > svn: Could not parse mergeinfo string ':netasq-bpf.c:25374'
> > svn: Invalid revision number found parsing ':netasq-bpf.c:25374'
> >
> > we have some files with "::" in their names and some of them can be
> > found in svn:mergeinfo property
> >
> > Here is an extract of the result of command "svn pg svn:mergeinfo
> > --recursive ." on one of our branch
> >
> > contrib/isc-dhcp3-server/files/patch-common::netasq-bpf.c - /trunk/<some
> > path>/contrib/isc-dhcp3-server/files/patch-common::netasq-bpf.c:25381
> >
> > Here is the error reported when trying to do a svn merge:
> >
> > svn: Could not parse mergeinfo string ':netasq-bpf.c:25368'
> > svn: Invalid revision number found parsing ':netasq-bpf.c:25368'
> >
> > Attached to this email is a quick and dirty fix for parsing of path in
> > mergeinfo for subversion 1.5.4 and 1.5.5.
> >
> > If you need extra information feel free to request them.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Damien Deville
>
> Damien, I think that your attachment got eaten by our mail system on
> Tigris.org. (It's a long story...) Are you able to repost your changes
> inline as opposed to an attachment?
>
>
>
Another workaround is described here:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.devel/107679
Daniel
(who's not going to waste any more time saying what he thinks of mail
systems that ... erhm, bye.)
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Received on 2009-01-06 18:19:49 CET