merge skipping a revision

I've been scratching my head over this one and maybe someone can help
me understand merging from a branch. I've cooked up a synthetic example
that
puzzles me.

 I've got a branch "reva" where a new file was added and three commits
made call it test.c.

Commited as rev 8 iy looks like this:
  line 1
  line 2
  line 3

Committed as rev 9 it looks like this:

  line 1
  line 2
  line 3
  line 4
  line 5
  line 6

Committed as rev 10 looks like this:

  line 1
  line 2
  line 3
  line 4
  line 5
  line 6
  line 7

In other words the file started with 3 lines, 3 more then got added and
then the seventh on.

I wanted to merge rev 8 and 10 to the trunk (skipping 9). I used the
following commands:
(anonymized)

svn merge -r 7:8 http://repo.path/svn/module/branches/reva trunk
svn merge -r 9:10 http://repo.path/svn/module/branches/reva trunk

The first merge is fine, the file is scheduled for additioin on the
trunk, and contains the expected 3 lines
The second merge generates a conflict that looks like this.

line 1
line 2
line 3
<<<<<<< .working
=======
line 4
line 5
line 6
line 7
>>>>>>> .merge-right.r10

Not what I epected. I had figured that since the change from rev 9 to
10 was adding "line 7" then
I would get only that added with no conflict. I'm running version
1.2.3, but we also tried it on 1.4.2.
I guess I am not understanding someting, any help would be appreciated.

Thanks, Jim
Received on Thu Aug 16 23:20:15 2007