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Re: Tree conflict 'svn merge' message

From: Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_apache.org>
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 17:58:56 +0100

On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 03:28:19AM +0000, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> I just tried to merge the swig-py3 branch into trunk [not in order to
> commit the merge, but only in order to run 'svn diff' on its result],
> and got the following output from 'svn merge':
>
> [[[
> Summary of conflicts:
> Tree conflicts: 1
> Searching tree conflict details for 'build/generator/util/executable.py' in repository:
> Checking r1819556... done
> Tree conflict on 'build/generator/util/executable.py':
> Changes destined for a file arrived via the following revisions during merge of
> '^/subversion/branches/swig-py3/build/generator/util/executable.py:1819163-1819564':
>
> No such file or directory was found in the merge target working copy.
> '^/subversion/trunk/build/generator/util/executable.py' was deleted in r1819556 by danielsh.
>
> Subversion is not smart enough to resolve this tree conflict automatically!
> See 'svn help resolve' for more information.
>
> Select: (p) Postpone, (r) Mark as resolved, (h) Help, (q) Quit resolution: h
> ]]]
>
> That's the correct diagnosis: the branch changed a file
> (build/generator/util/executable.py) that was later deleted on trunk.
> So that worked well.
>
> That said, I'm a bit confused by the language "via the following
> revisions …:" where the colon isn't followed by one or more revision
> numbers. Is it just an empty set of revisions?

This could be a bug. Perhaps the wrong message is selected for some
reason. Can you please file an issue? I cannot look closely right now.

Thanks,
Stefan
Received on 2017-12-30 17:59:05 CET

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