Hi tree-conflict fans.
<http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3486>
This is the bug that looks like:
> $ svn merge -r10182:11149 https://svn/repo/trunk/foo .
> svn: Attempt to add tree conflict that already exists at 'foo/src/x'
> svn: Error reading spooled REPORT request response
> $
Possibly the main cause of extreme pain from this bug is that Subversion
bails out of the merge when it hits this. If there are hundreds or
thousands of items to merge, given that our merge is not easily
re-startable from part way through, that makes it pretty much unusable.
Paul Hammant brought this up the other day in a thread on <users@>,
<http://subversion.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=1065&dsMessageId=2396235>, and filed issue #3496 <http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3496> about it. From a later message I understand he is looking into modifying Subversion so that it moves on past this error rather than bailing out. That sounds like a sensible plan if it is possible to do so while maintaining a consistent state.
The other approach is to try to fix all the cases that lead to this
error, because there are not supposed to be any such cases. (Issue
#3486.) However, although this approach is correct and Stefan and Neels
in particular have been working successfully on it in the r38000 group
of fixes (branch 1.6.x-r38000), it is taking a long time to find all the
different cases and there is not yet a complete fix.
Does anyone else think making svn cope with the problem and move on is
sensible? If so, I think Paul could do with some help on it as he is new
to Subversion coding (although very familiar with Subversion).
- Julian
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Received on 2009-09-23 12:39:22 CEST