AW: Merge into empty trunk

Hi,

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Michael Klemm [mailto:michael.klemm@informatik.uni-erlangen.de]
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 27. Juli 2005 11:47
> An: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Betreff: Merge into empty trunk
>
> Hi there,
>
> trying to merge a branch back into some empty trunk I ran into deep
> trouble. That's the situation:
>
> Add the beginning we created a repository with standard layout (trunk,
> branches, tags, releases). We then started development in a newly
> created sub-directory of branches (branches/student). After
> the student
> was finished, we branched off a new branch branches/bugfix from
> branches/student.
>
> Having a stable release I want to merge the changes into trunk that is
> now empty. I tried a
>
> svn merge -r118:464 https://.../branches/bugfix
>
> inside the trunk. This failed because branches/bugfix is not a copy of
> trunk. However, if I try to do a
>
> svn cp https://.../branches/bugfix https://.../trunk
>
> I'm stuck with trunk/bugfix which is not correct so far!
>
> Is there any trick to get the merges ported into trunk
> (besides copying
> them manully using a Unix cp)?

As /trunk is empty anyways, delete trunk an then try:

svn cp https://.../branches/bugfix https://.../trunk

This should recreate /trunk as a copy of your bugfixing branch, keeping all history.

>
> Regards
> -michael
>
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regards

fg

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