Re: merge fails with "Could not get content-type from response"

Hi Karl,

Discussion is moved to the dev list ... I will pick it up there.

Thanks,
Mark

On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 02:22 -0700, Karl Fogel wrote:
> Mark Reibert <svn@reibert.com> writes:
> > I am having a problem with merge failing. The merge chunks along for a
> > while, then quits with the message:
> >
> > svn: Could not get content-type from response
> >
> > This is exactly issue 2761:
> > http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2761
> >
> > which was closed due to lack of reproduction steps and output. So let me
> > try to address that. The command issued was:
> >
> > svn merge URL1@N URL2@M .
> >
> > The output looks as expected; just a list of files that are being
> > updated, added, deleted, etc. Then the client just quits with the error
> > message above. I know that is not much, but when you get a one-line
> > error there is not much to offer!
> >
> > One thing that might be a factor is this merge will result in a large
> > patch set. Could this be a timeout problem with Apache?
> >
> > Client: 1.4.5 (Win32 under Cygwin)
> > Server: 1.2.3 (Linux)
> > Access: ra_dav
>
> I unfortunately don't have time to debug this myself right now, but
> you could help us a lot with issue #2761 by putting together a true
> reproduction recipe. Just dump your repository ('svnadmin dump'), and
> zip up your working copy as it is before the merge, and attach them to
> the issue, along with a note saying what steps to take to reproduce --
> by which I mean the *exact* commands :-).
>
> I realize that all might take half an hour or so, but we're pretty
> dependent on clean reproduction recipes from users. You can greatly
> increase the chances of that issue getting fixed by taking that time.
>
> Thanks,
> -Karl
>
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