Paul, did this train of thought arrive at any particularly interesting stations?
Paul Burba wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Something occurred to me while working on some of our outstanding MT
> issues this week that troubles me a bit. We (thanks to cmpilato's merge
> source normalization code) go to significant effort to keep mergeinfo
> normalized. For example, if path 'branch1/A/D/G/rho' has mergeinfo of
>
> trunk/A/D/G/rho:4-7
> branch2/A/D/G/rho:12
>
> then 'trunk/A/D/G/rho' and 'branch2/A/D/G/rho' both better well exist at
> r3-7 and r12 respectively.
>
> But when a merge adds subtrees we can end up with paths that either
> inherit mergeinfo or have explicit mergeinfo with paths that don't
> exist. Consider a standard greek tree with the following changes:
>
> r2 - Copy 'A' to 'A_COPY'
> r3 - Text mod to 'A/D/H/psi'
> r4 - Text mod to 'A/D/G/rho'
> r5 - Text mod to 'A/B/E/beta'
> r6 - Text mod to 'A/D/H/omega'
> r7 - Add file 'A/D/H/nu'
> r8 - Text mode to file 'A/D/H/nu'
>
> Now merge a range to 'A_COPY' that starts before 'nu' was added:
>
>> svn merge %url77%/A merge_tests-77\A_COPY -r2:8
> --- Merging r3 through r8 into 'merge_tests-77\A_COPY':
> U merge_tests-77\A_COPY\B\E\beta
> U merge_tests-77\A_COPY\D\G\rho
> A merge_tests-77\A_COPY\D\H\nu
> U merge_tests-77\A_COPY\D\H\omega
> U merge_tests-77\A_COPY\D\H\psi
>
>
> We get the mergeinfo on A_COPY we expect. But now 'nu' is effectively
> inheriting '/A/D/H/nu:3-8', even though 'A/D/H/nu' doesn't even exist
> until r7.
>
>> svn pl -vR merge_tests-77
> Properties on 'merge_tests-77\A_COPY':
> svn:mergeinfo : /A:3-8
>
>
> Now do a reverse merge targeted on 'A_COPY/D/H/nu'
>
>> svn merge %url77%/A/D/H/nu merge_tests-77\A_COPY\D\H\nu -c-8
> --- Reverse-merging r8 into 'merge_tests-77\A_COPY\D\H\nu':
> U merge_tests-77\A_COPY\D\H\nu
>
>
> Now we get explicit mergeinfo on 'nu' that is again "misleading".
>
>> svn pl -vR merge_tests-77
> Properties on 'merge_tests-77\A_COPY':
> svn:mergeinfo : /A:3-8
> Properties on 'merge_tests-77\A_COPY\D\H\nu':
> svn:mergeinfo : /A/D/H/nu:3-7 <-- nu doesn't exist at r3-6
>
> Now to be clear, I haven't found any problems caused by this behavior
> (though http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3067 is
> tangentially related). I only wonder if this might cause us problems in
> some scenarios on trunk or in the various 1.5 targeted branches we are
> working on? Anyone thought about this particular issue much?
>
> Paul
>
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