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svn merge shows updated files, commit does not?

From: Nicolai Scheer <scope_at_planetavent.de>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:04:14 +0100

Hi!

We are using tsvn 1.5.3 on the client side and svn 1.4.4 on the server side.
I did a branch of the trunk to obtain a feature branch. Work in the
trunk continued and I tried to synchronize the trunk with the feature
branch. (feature-branch was not touched since its creation)

Here are the steps:

/trunk - head was r7226

copy r7226 of /trunk to /branches/feature-1

Work in the trunk, head is now 7276.

First thing that made me think was the merge I did to synchronize:
To my mind, I had to merge r7226 - r7276 from trunk into the branch. But
if I select such a range, Tsvn actually tries to merge 7226 again,
resulting in a merge of r7225 - r7276. So I changed the range to r7227 -
r7276. Now, the merge command reads (displayed in grey) "merging
revisions 7226 - r7276", but just a line below it says "merging 7227
trough 7276". I think this is due to the fact, that tsvn tries to help
the user when he tries to merge a single revision, say r1234, which is
not possible, because r1234 actually is the changes from r1233 to r1234,
correct? So when merging such a range, I just have to make sure, that
tsvn gets the borders right. The merge command in the merge output
dialoge is the "correct" one when thinking of raw svn commands, isn't it?

Then, after I merged the trunk changes to the feature branch I diffed
the two urls /trunk and /branches/feature-1 using the repo browser. As
expected, they are equal. Then, starting from a working copy of the
trunk, I tried to merge the feature-branch back into the trunk
(manually, server side is still 1.4.4). The steps:

Working copy of the trunk, context-menu, merge

Merge two different trees,

Start: /trunk head, To: /branches/feature-1 head, apply to working copy
of trunk

Now something confusing happens: The merge dialogue pops up and states
that 3 files have been updated. That should not be the case, since no
work was done on that feature-branch. The repo-browser comparison did
not show any changes, so that seems strange. After finishing the merge,
I tried to commit those "changes" on the trunk. But the commit dialogue
states "no files changed".

What is the scenario for that situation? The repo-browser says that
there is no difference between the trees. The merge dialogue reports
updates of some files. No changes visible on commit...

Any enlightment appreciated :)

greetings,

Nico

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