On 2/23/06 at 8:35 PM, subversion-2006Q1@ryandesign.com (Ryan Schmidt)
wrote:
> On Feb 23, 2006, at 19:45, Andrew Brosnan wrote:
>
> > I want to merge all changes in a trunk into a previously created
> > branch.
> > When I do a dry-run I get several 'Skipped missing target:' messages
> > anytime files were added in a new directory. Example:
> >
> > svn merge --dry-run -r 145:290 svn+ssh://url/to/trunk/project
> > ...
> > A html/images/horoscope/n
> > Skipped missing target: html/images/horoscope/n/Cancer.gif
> > Skipped missing target: html/images/horoscope/n/Scorpio.gif
> > Skipped missing target: html/images/horoscope/n/Leo.gif
> > ...
> >
> > The directory gets added ok, why not the files? How do I handle
> > this?
>
> Make sure your working copy has no changes and is up-to-date (so
> that, if the next step doesn't work, you can "svn revert -R" the
> whole thing). Then try the exact same command without the --dry-run
> parameter. Does it work? IMHO --dry-run is kinda busted in cases like
> this which is why I never use it.
>
I took the cowardly way out and added the half dozen directories
manually, then ran again and all was right.
Makes sense thought that dry-run might cause this behavior since it's
not actually adding the directories. ??
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Received on Thu Feb 23 20:50:37 2006