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Re: Serious merge bug?

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:16:54 +0200

Robert Dailey wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey_at_gmail.com
> <mailto:rcdailey_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey_at_gmail.com
> <mailto:rcdailey_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Stefan Küng
> <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com <mailto:tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Robert Dailey wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > As usual, I'm not sure if this is TSVN or SVN related, so
> I'll start by
> > reporting the issue here.
> >
> > Below is an error I received while trying to merge a large
> range of
> > revisions into a feature branch from trunk. I chose the
> 1st of the 3
> > merge options in the merge dialog. Any ideas what this
> could be?
> >
> > /Command: Merging revisions 490-673 of
> > http://10.3.1.50:1337/svn/vfxrepo/vfx/trunk into
> C:\IT\work\jewett,
> > respecting ancestry, Test Only
> > Error: Working copy path
> > Error:
> 'vfx/terrain/build/PlanetViewer/data/planets/p2/terrain_type/00
> -
> > Base' does
> > Error: not exist in repository
> > Finished!/
>
> Hmm - just saw in another mail from you that you're using a
> nightly
> build. I think that might be a problem: there's currently a
> lot of API
> rewriting going on in the library (all APIs dealing with
> paths/urls are
> split up into separate APIs for paths and urls, and that of
> course leads
> to new bugs which are fixed daily).
> I'll update to the latest svn trunk maybe this weekend.
>
>
> Well I'm using the nightly build knowing that risk. I'm doing it
> to possibly help test the software and report as many bugs as
> possible in order to help the software improve and evolve.
>
>
> The path actually does exist.
>
> I downgraded back to TortoiseSVN 1.5.3 release (The newest release)
> and decided to try the merge again. I followed the exact same steps
> I did before, and now I'm getting this error message:
>
> /Command: Merging revisions 490-673 of
> http://10.3.1.50:1337/svn/vfxrepo/vfx/trunk into C:\IT\work\jewett2,
> respecting ancestry, Test Only
> Error: URL
> Error:
> 'http://10.3.1.50:1337/svn/vfxrepo/vfx/trunk/vfx/terrain/build/PlanetViewer/data/planets/p2/terrain_type/03
>
> Error: - Grass' is malformed or the scheme or host or path is missing
> Finished!: /
>
> Any idea what this means? If you need more information let me know.
>
>
> After some research, it seems like it doesn't like spaces in the
> filenames. Read this thread:
> http://archive.netbsd.se/?ml=subversion-bugs&a=2008-09&m=8389386
> <http://archive.netbsd.se/?ml=subversion-bugs&a=2008-09&m=8389386>

Seems to be the reason, yes. The issue is still open though:
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3278

Stefan

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