Re: trunk 'svn merge' takes a very long time to respond.

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_btopenworld.com> wrote:

>> $ svn mergeinfo .
>> youngest last repos.
>> common full tip of path of
>> ancestor merge branch branch
>>
>> 1416944 1416945
>> | |
>> -------| |------------ subversion/branches/fsfs-format7
>> \
>> \
>> --| |------------ subversion/branches/fsfs-format7
>> |
>> 1416944
>>
>> Julian, might want to look at this and why the mergeinfo output for
>> this brach seems ... not right.
>
> Hi Mark. That's because you requested mergeinfo about merges between source branch "." and target branch "implicit .".
>
> Now, I thought it was coded to error out in that case and say "You must specify two different but related branches", so I'll look into why it didn't.

OK. I had not tried the command in a while and I thought I recalled
that you did not need to supply any arguments. When I just ran svn
mergeinfo it gave me an error. Adding the "." gave the above output.

In this case, wouldn't it know the branch came from /subversion/trunk
without any help?

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/