[svn.haxx.se] · SVN Dev · SVN Users · SVN Org · TSVN Dev · TSVN Users · Subclipse Dev · Subclipse Users · this month's index

Re: trunk client fails during conflict resolution

From: Alexey Neyman <stilor_at_att.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 13:42:40 -0700

On 10/18/2016 01:38 PM, Alexey Neyman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Some time ago, in a separate email thread I was asked to try 1.10
> client. I have been using it since, and today it showed an error
> during merge:
>
> Checking r12300... done
> Tree conflict on '<dir>':
> Directory merged from
> '^/trunk/<dir>@12172'
> to
> '^/trunk/<dir>@12414'
> was deleted by <user> in r12300.
> A directory which differs from the corresponding directory on the
> merge source branch was found in the working copy.
> Select: (p) postpone, (r) accept current working copy state,
> (i) ignore incoming deletion, (a) accept incoming deletion,
> (h) help, (q) quit resolution: a
> svn: warning: apr_err=SVN_ERR_WC_NOT_LOCKED
> svn: warning: W155005: No write-lock in
> '/home/aneyman/work/merge-shmem/lynxsecure/src/rif'
> subversion/svn/merge-cmd.c:551,
> subversion/svn/resolve-cmd.c:473:
> (apr_err=SVN_ERR_WC_CONFLICT_RESOLVER_FAILURE)
> svn: E155027: Failure occurred resolving one or more conflicts
>
> Using svn compiled from r1763039.
>
> What happened: while 'svn merge' was waiting for response, I decided
> to find out if I had any local changes in the offending directory. In
> a separate shell, I ran 'svn log --stop-on-copy <dir>' and then 'svn
> diff -c REV <dir>', where REV is the revision reported by 'svn log' on
> that directory. After that, I accepted incoming deletion, but the
> client aborted the merge - see above.
>
> On a separate note, the only revision reported on that directory by
> 'svn log' was a previous merge from ^/trunk. I am not sure how it made
> the ^/mybranch/<dir> different from ^/trunk/<dir> - IMO, they
> should've been identical. It would be helpful if 'svn merge' offered a
> verbose view on what it deemed different.

I just found what made it consider this directory different: it had
build artifacts (*.o, *.d, etc) in that directory - once I ran 'make
clean' prior to merge, the merge proceeded smoothly. Does the client
consider unversioned files when comparing the directories?

Regards,
Alexedy.
Received on 2016-10-18 22:42:52 CEST

This is an archived mail posted to the Subversion Dev mailing list.

This site is subject to the Apache Privacy Policy and the Apache Public Forum Archive Policy.