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svn merge 'breaks' working copy...

From: Clem Taylor <clem.taylor_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2005-11-28 05:23:41 CET

I think I've triggered a bug with 'svn merge'.

I have a vendor tree that contained a 2.6.13 linux kernel. I updated
this tree to 2.6.14 plus some heavily broken stuff. So, I backed out
this change so my vendor tree now has a clean 2.6.14 kernel. Next, I
attempt to merge the vendor tree with my development tree and I get a
large number of merge failures in the form of "Skipped missing target
'file'" and "Skipped 'file'" errors. This seemed to be the result of
the 2.6.14+ tree deleting a number of files and having to revert those
files (broken ancestry). After far too many manual merges, I now have
a happy working tree. However, I do a 'svn status -u' and it fails
with: "svn: Working copy path '...' does not exist in repository.". An
info for the failed file shows that the file in question is a new flie
that was copied (replaced) as part of the merge. This file existed in
the 2.6.13 tree was removed by the 2.6.14+ update and then replaced
when I reverted back to 2.6.13. If I do a status -u in other
sub-directories I see the error in other places.

So now I'm trying to recover from this without any luck. I checked out
a fresh working copy and managed to trigger the same problem again. I
tried doing a 'svn remove' of the broken file and that does not
eliminate the status error (because the file still has a history
commit pending).

Any ideas how to recover from this? The client is running 1.2.3 and
the server is running 1.1.4.

                                     Thanks,
                                     Clem Taylor

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