Isn't there one extra xyz folder created in your copy step?
I'm not sure, but shouldn't you use this:
svn copy http://server/svn/src/trunk/xyz
http://server/svn/src/branches/bob/
( skip the xyz here )
Lieven.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Peterson [mailto:bob@memento-inc.com]
> Sent: donderdag 22 december 2005 17:44
> To: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: svn merge reports skipped misisng fictional files
>
> I just don't grok Subversion sometimes. Here I try to merge
> and get an error about a fictional extra subfolder.
>
> svn mkdir http://server/svn/src/branches/bob
> This one I grok. It makes a folder named "bob".
>
> svn copy http://server/svn/src/trunk/xyz
> http://server/svn/src/branches/bob/xyz
> I grok this too. When I checkout bob I get a folders bob and
> bob/xyz and their contents alright. I even see the
> repository looking normal when I list it.
>
> svn merge -r 7394:7401 http://server/svn/src/trunk But
> when I try to merge from trunk I get the error for skipping
> two missing targets, mysteriously named
> "...bob\xyz\xyz\file1.cs" and "...bob\xyz\xyz\file2.resx".
> This extra layer of \xyz\ makes no sense.
> There was never such an extra subfolder that I can recall, but maybe
> there was in the far gone mists of time. Long before I did
> the mkdir.
>
> This smells faintly of another of my recently reported
> problems with merge. I blew away the old branch and started
> from a fresh copy.
> "Fortunately" I ran into -this- S.N.A.F.U. before I started
> developing in the new branch.
>
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