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Re: svn:mergeinfo problems

From: Adam <subs_at_adamsutton.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:19:15 -0800 (PST)

Looks like I might have missed something here. It turns out that I was
putting username@ at the beginning of the URL when calling from the
command line.

This appears to resolve the problem of updating all the other files,
unfortunately it doesn't update the the mergeinfo at all. The other
way round I get the mergeinfo but on unaltered files. Behaviour is the
same in TSVN and command line so I guess its a bug in the svn library
(I did think it was odd that TSVN should behaviour any differently).

Guess better start looking to see what the svn developers have to say.

Ta
Adam

On Feb 19, 2:54 pm, Adam <s..._at_adamsutton.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I know there are several posts relating to mergeinfo problems but none
> seem to have been updated recently and I'm having some rather annoying
> problems at the moment.
>
> Basically we've been using 1.5 builds for sometime and I like the idea
> of the mergeinfo stuff (if not he implementation, I know I'm not alone
> on that). I've just managed to get people to start using branches and
> merges more within our project (rather than relying on me to do it).
> And unfortunately we're getting stung by a few problems.
>
> The main one relates to merge info being updated on files
> unnecessarily. We have a rule on the project that merges into stable
> release branches are reviewed. As files that have not been modified in
> a merge are having their merge info updated this results in a
> cluttered changelog and makes the review process much harder. For
> those who are less familiar with the whole merge process this can also
> be somewhat unsettling when they go to merge and often they end up
> reverting all files/folders they don't believe they've changed,
> including the top level folder which needs the merge info updating.
>
> I have done a quick test (https based server running v1.5.1, I need to
> update) and merged into a WC on which I know there are files that have
> svn:mergeinfo set but would not be changed by the merge itself.
>
> - With TSVN 1.5.8 all files in the WC with mergeinfo have the
> mergeinfo updated (really annoying).
> - With svn 1.5.5. command line this does not happen. Only those files/
> folders directly affected have the mergeinfo updated (I would consider
> this correct).
>
> I must say that svn in general and TSVN in particular are great tools
> and this won't put me off using them it's just an annoyance which I
> think will cause us some problems moving forward.
>
> What I'd like to know is do the developers considered this a bug? If
> so any idea on when its likely to be fixed? If not, what is the logic
> behind this operation (or am I just doing something wrong?).
>
> Ta
> Adam
>
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