Re: Bug with directory containing file with the same name as the directory

Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:

> Oskar Enoksson wrote:
>
>> cd foo
>> svn merge file:///extra/svn-test/releases/foo file:///extra/svn-test/foo
>>
>
> I think this is that one special case where the merge command is
> trying to be "extra friendly" and guess at what you want. In
> particular, when the (1) basenames of the two URLs are identical, and
> (2) no explicit target is given, iand (3) the working copy has
> something with the same name, then it tries to apply the diff to that
> one object.
>
> So in this case, the merge command is behaving as if you had typed
> 'foo' as the explicit target to receive the merge:
>
> svn merge file://..../foo file://.../foo foo
>
> ... and so you're seeing an error about trying to apply the difference
> between two directories to a file.
>
> I think the workaround is to give an explicit target. Use "." as the
> 3rd argument to the merge command.

> svn merge file://..../foo file://.../foo .
svn: Attempted to get checksum of a *non*-file node

Doesn't work. But the following works:

>cd ..
>svn merge file://..../foo file://.../foo foo

Works!

I think this is a bug in svn.

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