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Re: Merge Troubles

From: Bob Hiestand <bob.hiestand_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2007-01-05 18:05:14 CET

On 1/2/07, Jason Voegele <jason@jvoegele.com> wrote:
> The trouble is that, on trunk, someone mistakenly deleted a file (let's call
> it "foo" for reference), and then "restored" the file on a subsequent
> revision. However, when foo was "restored", it was done using "svn cat", and
> therefore Subversion doesn't consider the new foo file to be related to the
> original foo file that was deleted.
>
> Now, when I try to merge from trunk, the svn merge process faithfully deletes
> foo in my branch, and then adds a new foo in my branch. No changes to foo
> have been made on the branch.
>
> Now, when I try to commit the merge to the repository, it fails, saying that
> the file is "out of date". Here is a transcript with path names modified for
> simplicity:

Jason,

  I believe I followed the same sequence of operations you describe on
SVN 1.4.2, and the commit on the branch of the merge (which includes
the delete as well as the 'svn cat' restore) worked just fine.

  To resolve your issue, you should be able to simply undo the svn cat
restore by deleting and then using svn copy to restore the file with
the correct ancestry. You revert your branch and re-run the merge (or
just leave revert that file and commit the merge, as it shouldn't
change anyway in the correct merge).

  Here is the log of the repository in which I tried to recreate the
issue, please let me know if I missed something:

[bob@localhost test]$ svn log --verbose .
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r6 | bob | 2007-01-05 10:59:20 -0600 (Fri, 05 Jan 2007) | 1 line
Changed paths:
   R /test/branches/b0/hello.txt (from /test/trunk/hello.txt:5)

Merged delete/svn cat replacement of hello.txt.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r5 | bob | 2007-01-05 10:57:10 -0600 (Fri, 05 Jan 2007) | 1 line
Changed paths:
   A /test/trunk/hello.txt

Replaced hello.txt with svn cat version.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r4 | bob | 2007-01-05 10:55:52 -0600 (Fri, 05 Jan 2007) | 1 line
Changed paths:
   D /test/trunk/hello.txt

Removed hello.txt temporarily.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r3 | bob | 2007-01-05 10:49:49 -0600 (Fri, 05 Jan 2007) | 1 line
Changed paths:
   A /test/branches/b0 (from /test/trunk:1)
   A /test/branches/b0/hello.txt (from /test/trunk/hello.txt:2)

Initialized b0.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r2 | bob | 2007-01-05 10:49:11 -0600 (Fri, 05 Jan 2007) | 1 line
Changed paths:
   A /test/trunk/hello.txt

Initialized hello.txt.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r1 | bob | 2007-01-05 10:47:33 -0600 (Fri, 05 Jan 2007) | 2 lines
Changed paths:
   A /test
   A /test/branches
   A /test/tags
   A /test/trunk

Initial structure for test environment.

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thank you,

Bob

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