Re: svn merge remote server versions to local workspace

On Dec 27, 2007, at 13:30, Jerry Pendergraft wrote:

> Tried something seemingly simple that did not work as expected.
> $ svn merge <remote>@N <remote>@M .
>
> According to the svnbook the result should be getting the
> difference between N and M and applying it to .
> But it fails with a message about mixing access methods .... huh?
>
> In fact $ svn diff <remote>@N <remote>@M does indeed produce a
> patch with difference between N and M.
>
> So why should the type of the local workspace matter?

What OS is on the server and client? What version of svn is on the
server and client? What is the repository access method in your merge
statements? What is the repository access method in your working
copy? Is your working copy from the same repository as the one from
which you're trying to merge, or is it a different repository?

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Received on Thu Dec 27 20:38:17 2007