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Re: SVN-4635: Cherry-pick merge scenario causes Svn to choke

From: Paul Hammant <paul_at_hammant.org>
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2016 13:05:31 -0400

The last C I did was in 1992, so I think I'm quite rusty. Otherwise I'd use
the reproduction to guide me to the lines in error, and give you that
patch/PR.

-ph

On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 10:37 AM, Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Op 11-jun.-2016 12:37 schreef "Paul Hammant" <paul_at_hammant.org>:
> >
> > http://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/issues.html amongst
> other things, says "
> > if you're pretty sure about the bug, go ahead and post directly to our
> development list". OK, so here's a bug with merge tracking:
> >
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-4635
> >
> > Synopsis: Series of cherry-picks between branches breaks subversions
> merge tracking
> >
> > A reproducible bug, I should say - there's bash scripts within the
> issue. made on a mac and tested with Svn 1.9.4.
> >
> > I even ported the same scripts to Perforce, Git and Mercurial (same
> sequence of merge events) and it
> > works fine. The code for those is on branches in that same Git repo.
> >
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> Thank you for reporting this issue, with reproduction script and all.
>
> It's fine that you try to draw a little attention to it with your post to
> dev@. However, at this time resources are quite low in our little dev
> community, so I'm not sure when someone will be able to take a closer look.
>
> Patches are always welcome of course :-), but I know that not everyone has
> the time to go that route ...
>
> Regardless, thanks for the issue report.
>
> --
> Johan
>
Received on 2016-06-11 19:05:42 CEST

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