RE: svn merge lies?

> > The 'svn merge' output says "A" or "U", but 'svn status'
> lists them as
> > 'C' and they do have merge conflict files (left, right,
> working.) This
> > affected both text and binary files. In my case, the text
> output from
> > 'svn merge' listed 61 conflicts, but actually generated 254
> conflicts.
> > Which was a rude shock since we were working off of the 61 conflict
> > list.

> This has been "fixed" (i.e. we now report C, not A, which isn't ideal,
> you'd like to have both bits of info, but still, better than nothing)
> and will be in the first 1.4.x release.

Thanks for the fast response.

So what is going on here? Is it a case of 'evil twins', aka the
'deleted and added instead of copied' issue? Along the lines of:

        foo.java(1) and foo.java(2) have the same name but are different
objects with different history, ancestry, etc. on different branches.
Evil twins are normally created when you do an 'svn add' to add foo.java
to two different branches (creating two unique objects,) instead of an
'svn add' on branch one, and then an 'svn copy' to branch two (which
creates two references to a single unique object.)

        So two merges are done. One to merge the objects (hence the A
or U reported by 'svn merge',) and the 2nd to diff/merge the two
objects' files' contents. So it's really (A or U) plus C?

More importantly, I have a vague, queasy feeling that since the ancestry
is different for each foo.java object, future merges may have subtle
problems?

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