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Re: problems when merging branches

From: John Allen <john.allen_at_orbiscom.com>
Date: 2006-05-11 09:34:12 CEST

Ok, someone deleted the file, then added it back to the branch. Now you are
trying to merge it to trunk, and you get a conflict.

After the merge try one of the following for the conflicted files
1.
        # svn revert <problematicfile>
2.
        # svn cat svn-url-to-file > <problematicfile>
        # svn resolve <problematicfile>
        
The commit the file

On Thu 11 May 2006 07:42, Juergen Richtsfeld wrote:
> i think i found the problem. something bad happened yesterday when i tried
> the svn status command.
>
> if i do it again now (starting from the beginning with a clean WC) svn
> status -v <problematicfile> reports a
>
> R + - 655 <user> <file>
>
> in that case, the file is a textfile, so it has nothing to do with binary
> files. it's just the 'R' state of the file that causes exactly this
> problem. when i check the merge log i find the entries
>
> D <problematicfile>
> A <problematicfile>
>
> can this be worked around? is this by intention? is this a bug?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Juergen Richtsfeld [mailto:Juergen.Richtsfeld@borland.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 8:26 AM
> > To: users@subversion.tigris.org
> > Subject: RE: RE: RE: Re: problems when merging branches
> >
> > one more thing that came to my mind is that the problematic
> > file didn't change in trunk since the branch was created BUT
> > it was deleted on the branch and re-added. could this cause
> > this problem?
> >
> >
> > jürgen
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Juergen Richtsfeld [mailto:Juergen.Richtsfeld@borland.com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 7:41 AM
> > > To: users@subversion.tigris.org
> > > Subject: RE: RE: Re: problems when merging branches
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Baz [mailto:brian.ewins@gmail.com]
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 6:09 PM
> > > > To: Juergen Richtsfeld
> > > > Cc: users@subversion.tigris.org
> > > > Subject: Re: RE: Re: problems when merging branches
> > > >
> > > > On 5/10/06, Juergen Richtsfeld
> > >
> > > <Juergen.Richtsfeld@borland.com> wrote:
> > > > > > From: Juergen Richtsfeld
> >
> > [mailto:Juergen.Richtsfeld@borland.com]
> >
> > > > > > > > > i get messages like:
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Error Item '<somefile>' is out of date
> > > > > > > > > Error You have to update your working copy first.
> > > > >
> > > > > i executed the svn status on a file that causes the
> > > >
> > > > described problems, and i get a single line like
> > > >
> > > > > 686 3 username theproblematicfile
> > > > >
> > > > > when i execute the same on the directory that contains this
> > > >
> > > > file, the output contains exactly the same line. what i
> > > > forgot is that the problematic file(s, there are more) are
> > > > all binary (at least i didn't find a non-binary problematic file).
> > > >
> > > > Sounds like for some reason you got a conflict (eg
> >
> > someone committed
> >
> > > > to trunk after you checked it out,
> > >
> > > this did not happen. i checked this multiple times.
> > >
> > > > and - for some reason - you are
> > > > writing to those binary files during the 'clean build' you
> > >
> > > mentioned).
> > >
> > > this does also not happen. i even tried it without the
> >
> > build step, and
> >
> > > it didn't solve anything. besides of that, my build doesn't
> >
> > change the
> >
> > > files in the repository.
> > >
> > > > Binary files can't be merged; this would explain both the error
> > > > message and the fact that it's restricted to binaries. I don't
> > > > understand why this wasn't marked as a conflict in 'svn status'
> > > > though, so you could just fix it with svn resolve - my
> > >
> > > reading of the
> > >
> > > > mail archive suggests it should have behaved that way for a
> > >
> > > couple of
> > >
> > > > years.
> > >
> > > ok, i'll give this a try. BUT what i'm wondering why there is no
> > > conflict (as you said). the files that are created when you have a
> > > conflict are also missing (the copies of both revisions).
> > >
> > > > While you should be able to fix things by copying out the binary
> > > > files, reverting them, and copying the files back before
> >
> > you commit,
> >
> > > > it brings a couple of questions up -
> > > > - are you checking compilation products back into the repository?
> > >
> > > No, it's a java project, and i'm talking about 3rd party jars here.
> > >
> > > > Is
> > > > this intentional?
> > >
> > > yes ;)
> > >
> > > > Its happened here sometimes that developers
> > > > accidentally commit build logs and the like, but we
> >
> > didn't need them
> >
> > > > versioned.
> > > > - why aren't these marked as conflicted, so that 'svn
> >
> > resolve' would
> >
> > > > fix it? (anyone?). You don't mention your svn version in
> >
> > the thread,
> >
> > > > this might be relevant.
> > >
> > > i'm using subversion 1.3.0 on the clients (windows) and
> >
> > 1.3.0-4 on the
> >
> > > server (debian etch amd64).
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ok, so i'll fix the problems manually by replacing the
> >
> > files from the
> >
> > > other branch. this isn't really what i expected to do when
> >
> > i'm using a
> >
> > > merge tool. what i don't understand here is, that my merge
> > > affects lot's
> > > of binary files, but it doesn't happen for all of them. only
> > > a few. i'll
> > > go and check what's necessary for this problem to occur.
> > >
> > >
> > > should we file an issue for this?
> > >
> > > juergen
> >
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