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RE: strange merge situation - file deleted after initial merge and before commit is created in repos (but missing from logs)

From: Charles E. Doucette <cdoucette_at_med-learn.com>
Date: 2004-01-19 22:53:59 CET

Sorry - I forgot to mention that for the record we're running Subversion 0.35.1 on Windows 2000 and XP (with Tortoise SVN 0.24)
using Apache 2.0.48.

Chuck

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles E. Doucette [mailto:cdoucette@med-learn.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 4:15 PM
> To: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Cc: karl@med-learn.com
> Subject: strange merge situation - file deleted after initial
> merge and before commit is created in repos (but missing from logs)
>
>
> In order to merge our clients updates to our site, I created
> a branch with their changes.
>
> Then, I tried to merge their changes into the main-line of
> development.
>
> They had created a new directory (content), and had added new
> files such as:
>
> content/about_stats.aspx
>
> After merging their changes, I discovered what they had done
> wouldn't work. A few of their files had to be split into two
> files, i.e.
>
> content/about_stats1.aspx and content/about_stats2.aspx.
>
> I tried to rename content/about_stats.aspx; but, since I
> hand't checked in the result of the merge (to get an original
> version of that file in that directory), it wouldn't let me
> do the rename. Rather than checking in the complete file
> as-is, I forced a delete of it and then added
> about_stats1.aspx and about_stats2.aspx.
>
> Now, my original development directory is fine (without the
> deleted file - even after updating); but, whenever I do a
> checkout or an export I still get a copy of about_stats.aspx
> (even though it was deleted from the merge and never checked
> into the main line). Also, whenever I try to look for that
> file in the log messages, it isn't found.
>
> Any insight is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Chuck
>
> p.s. I'll hold-off deleting the file from the repository in case
> anyone wants to use our repository as evidence.
>
>
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