> >> Record only should only make changes to the properties and not
> the files.
> >> You can also just manually update the svn:merginfo on the trunk
> if you
> >> want.
> >
> > I think the problem is that because Daniel is using ancestrally
> > unrelated trees for the left and right side of his merge diff
> there
> > is no merge-tracking (just like when the --ignore-ancestry option
> is
> > used).
> > So any options related to merge-tracking (like --record-only)
> have no
> > effect.
> >
>
> I think that what I am dealing with is ancestrally related now:
>
> (in 4.2 working copy) svn merge --record-only -r 222:473
> ^/branches/branch4.1
You can verified that branch4.2 is a child (copy of) branch4.1?
>
> Here I am attempting to generate merge info for the changes since I
> started
> the branch at r222 up to the point where I figured out everything I
> have
> been doing wrong r473.
>
> It seems like --record-only should generate an error if there is a
> problem
> instead of corrupting my working copy. It is a simple matter to
> revert
> this, but it is not very useful for understanding what I did wrong.
>
> I wanted to check my version numbers, to make sure that I am using
> recent
> versions. My client is 1.6.13. Is there a way to get the server
> version
> from the svn client?
I guess my question is...
1. Can you do the merge --record-only without specifying revisions.
2. What is it corrupting exactly?
BOb
Received on 2011-04-21 17:18:03 CEST