RE: Re: Path not found on merge

On 7/04/2015 14:50, Ben Fritz wrote:
> I saw the same error message, when I had this situation:
>
> 1. Create branchA from trunk at revision 123
> 2. Do some work on branchA, up to revision 124
> 3. Revision 125 created on trunk
> 4. Merge revision 125 to branchA
> 5. Create branchB from revision 125 on trunk
> 6. Merge branchA to branchB as an automatic merge, by not specifying a
> revision
>
> I worked around this issue by specifying an explicit revision range in step
> 6 instead of doing an auto merge. But I'd certainly like to know what was
> going on.

The automatic merging gets completely confused when you are trying to merge sibling or unrelated branches instead of direct parent/child relationships.

I believe this is because of the way that SVN branches are paths and the mergeinfo is stored by path in the properties.

So in the above sequence, step 6 has issues because branchA is neither one of the ancestors of branchB nor does it contain previous merges from branchB.

In Git it wouldn't be a problem because branches are just refs, so in step 5 you are creating two aliases for exactly the same thing. In SVN however in step 5 you are copying trunk to another path in revision 126, and this new copy is not the same as trunk itself (eg. it will have different mergeinfo).

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Received on 2015-04-07 06:22:38 CEST