Re: why is svn so useless at merge.

On Mar 2, 2005, at 6:11 AM, Robin Becker wrote:

> Client win32 1.1.2, server freeBSD 1.1.1.
>
> I have a set of trunk changes which I wish to apply to a branch.
>
> In the freshly checked out branch I do
>
> svn merge -r15822:HEAD https://192.168.0.6/svn/private/trunk

Should this set of changes apply 'cleanly' to the branch? In other
words, is r15822 the revision in which the branch was born?

>
> The merge keeps failing with a Working copy users/xxx not locked.
>
> I tried removing users from the branch and that fails dismally. It
> seems as though the merge is faili to create folders which it needs to
> inspect/change.
>

"Removing users from the branch"? I don't understand.

Can you please show us detailed transcripts of the command and output.
And give more information on the history here.

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Received on Wed Mar 2 15:06:41 2005