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Re: Merge doesn't agree with Eclipse or Command Line merge

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:03:39 +0100

Peter Kahn wrote:
> When merging with Tortoise all revisions appear to be merged ignoring
> the mergeinfo property. Both eclipse and command line seem to do what
> I expect.
>
> I must be doing something wrong, but I don't know what
>
> Details:
> I have a branch and a trunk. Prior to branch creation we had 500
> revisions on trunk. After branch creation we addfed 200 revisions on
> trunk. We merged the additional 200 using command line and branch's
> mergeinfo records 500:700 as merged.
>
> We recently had 5 additional revisions to trunk.
>
> ** Only the 5 new revisions are merged when merging with command line
> and eclipse
> commandline -- svn merge url-trunk workspace-branch
> eclipse -- Team->Merge, Merge a range of revisions,
> provide no range in dialog
>
> ** All revisions are merged when mering with tortoise
> Merge -> Merge a range or revisions, provide no range on dialog
> From Tortoise Output: "Command: Merging revisions 1-HEAD of ...trunk
> into ...workspace, respecting ancestry, Test Only "
>
> Shouldn't that say 700-HEAD?
>
> Am I missing an option or a pref somewhere, because I thought that
> TortoiseSVN would only attempt to merge those revisions not yet
> propagated.

TSVN reports 1-HEAD because that's the revision range passed to the
merge API for such merges. Internally, both the command line client and
Subclipse do the same (pass 1-HEAD) to the API.
The API then finds out that only 700-HEAD should be merged and does the
merge that way.

Stefan

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