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Re: TSVN gives no warning when merging when the target file has been deleted

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:59:29 -0400

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:36, Erik Hemdal <erik_at_comprehensivepower.com> wrote:
> Problem: TSVN is silent when I try to merge a file from trunk to a branch
> where the target file has been deleted. It doesn't give
> any message about the file in the list of changes until the branch is merged
> back to trunk.
>
> Expected: TSVN shows a message like "Skipped missing target", or adds the
> file on the target branch, or shows a conflict.
>
> Questions: Is this an ambiguous case, or a user error? Should I have
> expected TSVN to warn at R105 in the test case below?
> Is there a reliable way to avoid this, other than due diligence when
> merging?
>
> Test case:
>
> Trunk at R100 contains fileA, fileB, fileC.
>
> R101: Create Branch by copying from trunk.
> R102: Add a line to fileA on Trunk.
> R103: Delete fileC on Branch.
> R104: Add a line to fileB on Branch.
> R105: Merge R101-102 from trunk into Branch. I see the change to fileA.
> TSVN is silent about the deleted file.
> R106: Merge changes from HEAD of trunk to HEAD of Branch into trunk. I see
> that the added line appears in fileB, and fileC is removed.
>
> At R106, trunk and Branch are identical. But I expected to see a "Skipped
> missing target" message at R105, and I did not.
>
>
> I can reproduce this behavior with the native client, too. So my first
> guess is that I did something wrong.
>

If you can reproduce the behavior w/ the command-line client, either
it's something you did wrong, or it's an issue in the Subversion
libraries, not TSVN.

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