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Re: Merging problems

From: Nick Gilbert <nick_at_x-rm.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:11:50 +0100

Hans-Emil Skogh wrote:
> You should use "Reintegrate a branch" in the situation you describe.
> You just have to fix the problems that prevent your merge (and these
> may be mutiple). And DO NOT FORGET to delete the entire branch after
> you are don reintegrating it.
>
> It looks like some parts of your working copy have gone missing, or
> that you have manually made a sparse checkout. (See
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.advanced.sparsedirs.html for
> details.)
> Try doing an update on your entire working copy. If that fails to
> resolve your problem do an "Update to revision" on the working copy
> and set "Update depth" to "Fully recursive". (I'm not sure when this
> functionality was introduced, but it's avaliable in the latest
> nightly, and I think in the latest official release as well.)
Whatever I do I still get "Error: Cannot reintegrate into a working copy
not entirely at infinite depth". I don't think any parts of my working
copy have gone missing - it's a full checkout of the entire repository
and if I update, everything is there.
>
> > Since TortoiseSVN introduced the dialog where you select one of three
> > options to perform a merge, I've NEVER been able to successfully do a
> > merge
>
> Keep trying untill you get it right. Merges only* fail to prevent you
> from potentially shooting yourself in the foot.
Well thats difficult when I don't understand any of the error messages
I'm getting. :(

I think I might have to resort to the copy and paste method of merging
again. :(

Nick...

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