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Re: Nightly build merge problem

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:54:50 +0200

On 21.06.2010 08:44, Hans-Emil Skogh wrote:
> >> I'm seeing some strange behaviour in the nightlies for a week or so. I'm
> >> trying to merge a small change in a file from one branch to another. The
> >> merge is marked as conflicted, and when I try to resolve it it looks
> >> like that the last couple of hundred lines in the "theirs" file is
> >> simply missing. This has happened two times in aprox 20 merged files.
> > Do you resolve the conflict with TMerge or using the "resolve using..."
> > entries in the context menu?
> I tried resolving it using TortoiseMerge, but since the resulting diff
> was so strange (lines missing makes for an intresting diff :-) ) I
> selected "resolve later".
>
> > If TMerge, do you maybe have the view set to "collapse"?
> No.
>
> > Are the lines really missing in the file after resolving the conflict?
> > Or just not shown in TMerge?
> They are really missing. The resulting (unresolved) file looked like:
> --- schnipp ---
>
> <<<<<<< .mine
>
> /(The complete content of the mine-file here)/
> =======
> /(The content of the theirs-file here minus a couple of hundred lines at the end)/
>
>>>>>>>> .r#####
>
> --- schnapp ---
> It didn't even seem like there had been any effort to insert the
> conflict markers around the conflicting parts of the files, but simply
> marked the entire file contents as conflicting.

In that case, it's a problem in the svn library. You could try reporting
it on the svn dev list. But be prepared to get insulted.

Stefan

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