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Re: Shouldn't --reintegrate used with a 2-URL merge perform checks?

From: Paul Burba <ptburba_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:54:54 -0400

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:42 AM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net> wrote:
> On 06/29/2010 10:36 AM, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
>> On 06/29/2010 10:26 AM, Brandt, Servatius (External) wrote:
>>> This is an suggestion to improve the --reintegrate option to perform
>>> similar checks on a 2-URL merge as it already does when used with
>>> a 1-URL merge.
>>
>> Ahem.  I think we lack this patch:
>>
>> Index: subversion/svn/merge-cmd.c
>> ===================================================================
>> --- subversion/svn/merge-cmd.c        (revision 958677)
>> +++ subversion/svn/merge-cmd.c        (working copy)
>> @@ -334,6 +334,11 @@
>>      }
>>    else
>>      {
>> +      if (opt_state->reintegrate)
>> +        return svn_error_create(SVN_ERR_CL_ARG_PARSING_ERROR, NULL,
>> +                                _("Cannot specify --reintegrate "
>> +                                  "with two URLs"));
>> +
>>        err = svn_client_merge3(sourcepath1,
>>                                &first_range_start,
>>                                sourcepath2,
>>
>> I don't believe we support --reintegrate on a two-URL merge.  Unfortunately,
>> the client doesn't tell you that -- it just silently falls into a
>> non-reintegrate merge codepath.
>
> I've added a check for this condition in r959004.  Will propose for backport
> to 1.6.x, too.
>
> Just to be clear, Servatius, we don't support the use of the --reintegrate
> option with 2-URL merges.  You've managed to point out (perhaps
> inadvertantly) that our client doesn't complain when you try to do that,
> though, so that's what I've fixed here.  You might want to talk through
> (over on our users@ list) whatever scenario led you to attempt this type of
> merge:  what situation merits it, what you expected to happen, etc.

Agreed, the use case here is legit: Changes on a feature branch need
to make their way to a release branch. I'm simply opposed to having
--reintegrate play a part here (plus I'm grumpy from merge
overexposure :-)

Paul
Received on 2010-06-29 17:55:31 CEST

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