On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Simon Large <simon.tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>wrote:
> The /svn/!svn/bc/... is internal to the repository which is why it
> looks unfamiliar. It's not even very useful as an end user message as
> the internal workings are only of interest to the subversion
> developers.
>
> It's possible that you have your from and to URLs the wrong way round,
> although I can't tell as I don't know what you are merging. But
> merging trees is confusing and not very intuitive. I suggest having
> another look at the help file and if that doesn't resolve it you need
> to provide us with more information about what you are trying to
> achieve with this merge operation.
>
> Simon
>
Here's the situation. There exists an SVN, at www.bci2000.org, to which we
don't have commit access but need to make modifications. So, we created our
own SVN repository off of an early revision of the bci2000 repository.
Since then, we have been "merging a range of revisions" periodically to keep
our code relatively up-to-date with the BCI2000 repository. I've since
learned that we probably should have called this a vendor branch and used
some different terminology, but that ship has sailed.
This process worked reasonably well, until they announced they had released
a new version of their software. It was created in a branch off of revision
2405. We had merged our way up to 2960. They did NOT reintegrate, they
simply swapped then-trunk (which we had been using) to tags/bci2000.v2.1 and
moved branches/v3 over to trunk. I'd like to get our code onto the
now-trunk, version 3.
The problem is that I'm carrying around 500-some-odd revisions that weren't
incorporated into the other tree. So, I need to merge the difference
between two trees.
I've re-read the help file, and I begin to wonder if I am trying to use the
merge slightly differently from how it was intended. I want to go from
revision 2960 of v2.1, to the head of v3. The text in the dialog box
implies I can do this (from URL= v2.1, from revision = 2960, to URL=v3, to
revision=head). Reading the help file, however, implies that I can ONLY go
from head-to-head, and the "revision" box in both needs to be filled in with
the revision where both branches were synchronized (URLs same as above, but
both from and to revision is 2405). Which one is correct, the dialog box or
the help file?
If the help file is correct, is my best way forward to merge my current
revision up to head and then merge two trees with revision 2405 in both
boxes? If that's really my problem, I apologize for cluttering the TSVN
discussion with this. I mostly just thought that error message looked
internal and horrible, so it might be a TSVN bug...
Dave
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