Should Subversion allow a merge on top of a file that already contains
an unresolved conflict? Run the script below to set up the scenario.
The first merge introduces a conflict, the second merge contains
incoming changes to the conflicting section. The second merge is applied
successfully to the working copy. However, as the working copy is still
in conflict, when you come to resolve it, the contributors overwrite the
later changes. In the example, the contributors are foo.c.working,
foo.c.merge-right.r4 and foo.c.merge-left.r3. When the merge is
completed the foo.c that had contained the changes from the second merge
are overwritten.
I think it's a misfeature that svn allows a merge into a file that
already contains conflicts, especially given that multiple pass merges
are broken up for entirely the reason that there is no reliable way to
merge a change into a file that already contains conflicts.
It may seem unlikely that someone would do a second merge when there is
already conflicts, however this is the case when you pick two separate
source revisions to merge in Tortoise, and then choose to postone
resolving all conflicts - you may not realise there is a conflict in the
first revision as subsequent revisions may be merged successfully.
Apparently it is documented that you must resolve interactively when
cherrypicking, however I can't find this. Nevertheless, imho the
behaviour in this scenario should be the same as when merging a
non-contiguous range of revisions, ie you are forced to resolve
conflicts after each sub-range.
Grateful for any opinions on this... and if this is a reported bug,
what's the ID please.
cheers, jamie
__SCRIPT__
@rem config
SET REPO_PATH=file:///c:/tmp/TestMergeIssue/repo
rm -rf wc repo
svnadmin create repo
svn co %REPO_PATH% wc
pushd wc
mkdir trunk branches
echo 1 >> trunk\foo.c
echo 2 >> trunk\foo.c
echo 3 >> trunk\foo.c
echo 4 >> trunk\foo.c
echo 5 >> trunk\foo.c
echo 6 >> trunk\foo.c
echo 7 >> trunk\foo.c
echo 8 >> trunk\foo.c
echo 9 >> trunk\foo.c
svn add trunk branches
svn commit -m "1"
svn cp trunk branches/1.0
svn commit -m "2"
@rem change 2nd line on trunk
perl -pi.bak -e "s/2/B trunk/" trunk/foo.c
svn commit -m "3" trunk/foo.c
@rem add lines on branch
perl -pi.bak -e "s/2/A.ny\nB.ny\nC.ny\nD.ny/" branches/1.0/foo.c
svn commit -m "4" branches/1.0/foo.c
@rem this will conflict now
@rem modify two of the lines on branch
perl -pi.bak -e "s/C.ny/C/" branches/1.0/foo.c
perl -pi.bak -e "s/D.ny/D/" branches/1.0/foo.c
svn commit -m "5" branches/1.0/foo.c
pushd trunk
svn merge --accept postpone -c 4 ^^/branches/1.0
svn merge --accept postpone -c 5 ^^/branches/1.0
popd
popd
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Received on 2010-11-23 11:28:05 CET