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Re: deleted-with-history [sic] after merge

From: Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_btopenworld.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:03:22 +0000

Erik Huelsmann wrote:
> ... the problem you describe below looks an awful lot like issue

Issue #1962: "merge of non-empty subdir committed incorrectly".

Erik, In working on that issue, you added in r26169 a test for this behaviour
in merge_tests.py: "merge added subtree".

Could you or I re-add that test as XFAIL now? I tried. All that is needed to
update it is to add an initial parameter "disk" to the call to
"compare_trees()". It looks like a valid test to have.

Do you have any idea how to progress this? It sounds like your final comment
below - "... we'll need to design what we want..." - is the crux.

- Julian

>> If the dir replacement is done manually via 'svn del' and 'svn add',
>> the status is nominal:
>>
>> D 1 1 steve /tmp/del-w-hist/wc/A/X/foo
>> A 0 ? ? /tmp/del-w-hist/wc/A/X/bar
>> R 1 1 steve /tmp/del-w-hist/wc/A/X
>> 1 1 steve /tmp/del-w-hist/wc/A
>> Status against revision: 1
>>
>> and during commit, foo is implicitly deleted with its parent dir:
>>
>> Replacing tmp/del-w-hist/wc/A/X
>> Adding tmp/del-w-hist/wc/A/X/bar
>> Transmitting file data .
>> Committed revision 2.
>>
>> If the dir replacement is done via 'svn merge', then the status looks
>> rather strange (foo appears to be "deleted-with-history"):
>>
>> D + - 3 steve /tmp/del-w-hist/wc/B/X/foo
>> A + - 2 steve /tmp/del-w-hist/wc/B/X/bar
>> R + - 3 steve /tmp/del-w-hist/wc/B/X
>> M 3 3 steve /tmp/del-w-hist/wc/B
>> Status against revision: 3
>
> The '+'-es come from svn_wc_add2() which marks the complete subtree as
> COPIED==TRUE. (ouch!)
>
>
>> and during commit, foo is deleted explicitly *after* its parent dir
>> has been deleted.
>>
>> Sending tmp/del-w-hist/wc/B
>> Replacing tmp/del-w-hist/wc/B/X
>> Adding tmp/del-w-hist/wc/B/X/bar
>> Deleting tmp/del-w-hist/wc/B/X/foo
>> subversion/libsvn_client/commit.c:916: (apr_err=160028)
>> svn: Commit failed (details follow):
>> subversion/libsvn_repos/commit.c:125: (apr_err=160028)
>> svn: File or directory '/B/X/foo' is out of date
>
> The fact that the delete comes after the delete of the parent dir is
> normal: that's how the svn_delta_path_driver works: depth-first,
> processing tree nodes as they are passed
>
>> This causes an error in my patched Subversion, which forbids
>> committing a delete of an item that does not exist in the repository.
>
> Right. Here you have the essence of the problem: in the wc-1.0 schema,
> files which are part of the deleted subtree in a replaced subtree have
> to be marked 'deleted'. If they were not, there would be no way to put
> another file in its place.
>
> However, a schedule delete is a valid state in a added-with-history
> subtree too: you may want to delete part of the subtree before you
> commit.
>
> So, what we're facing here is: we want to be able to tell the file is
> part of a deleted subtree *and* we want to be able to tell a file has
> been removed from the add-with-history subtree we copied on top of it.
> The problem is that we do that with the same schedule-delete status of
> the file, which then becomes ambiguous.
>
>
>> Comparing the working copies before the commits, I noticed something
>> odd in /B/X/.svn/entries: the file foo is marked as "copied". This
>> explains the 'D +' above. It contradicts the .entries format rules
>> in subversion/libsvn_wc/README:
>>
>> copied:
>> A boolean: true if this entry was added with history; only allowed
>> when schedule is add. (### Why aren't the copyfrom attributes
>> enough for this?)
>
> This is plain wrong: files which are part of a
> schedule-add-with-history subtree are marked schedule-normal, but have
> the 'copied' flag. (Not that I actually like this design, but that's
> how it is now.)
>
>
>> Certainly we should not mark schedule-delete items as "copied". Is
>> there a good reason for merge to cause commit to visit all items in a
>> tree that is already deleted?
>
> No, there is not. The copied flag comes from svn_wc_add2() which
> markes all files in the subtree as copied (and rewrites their URL),
> making this operation a *huge* problem for replaced subtrees.
>
>
>> I suspect the practical reason for the current behavior is the code
>> shared with diff, which certainly needs to visit everything. For more
>> on the diff/merge dependency, see my earlier post at
>> http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2008-02/0776.shtml.
>
> I wouldn't go this far: I think it should be possible to get the right
> diffs and commits without a copied flag all over the place, but we'll
> need to design what we want from our library.

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