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Re: Merge Bug? no, it must be user error....I hope

From: <kfogel_at_collab.net>
Date: 2004-10-09 23:40:51 CEST

I think to be able to help, we might need a totally concrete example
(the actual revisions, the actual changes, the actual URLs, etc).

-Karl

pkahn@connected.com writes:
> Guys, I recently discovered an issue with a merge between my branches.
> Basically, this happened:
>
> I have branches currentA, currentB, newReleaseC
> I merged a revision range from currentA to currentB and found changes that
> are only in newReleaseC.
>
> What is even crazier is that the revision range I merged was 100:105, but
> the if I do a diff on newReleaseC for that range, I do not see any changes
> because the change was made in r25
>
> So, operator error seems unlikely, because it would have mean both keying in
> the wrong branch and the wrong range.
>
>
> I don't trust the operator (especially because it was probably me). Does
> anyone one know how I might track down exactly what happened?
>
> I have tried simulating this situation by doing the following
> svn update -r<bad merge revision -1> currentB
> svn merge -r100:105 currentA currentB
> svn st currentB # check results
>
> reset environment
> svn update -r<bad merge revision -1> currentB
> svn merge -r100:105 newReleaseC currentB
> svn st currentB # check results
>
> In both cases, no change came down.
>
> So, I am confused. Anyone have any ideas on paths of investigation?
>
> Thanks for the help...
> --
> Peter Kahn
> pkahn@connected.com
>

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