On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Murli Varadachari
<mvaradachari_at_facebook.com> wrote:
>
> I am having a hard time deciphering the way the svn:mergeinfo information is
> stored. ==>
>
> Recently I reformatted a 30GB svn repository from 1.4.x to svn 1.5 .1 [
> dump / load ]. The client is also at 1.5.1.
>
> I created a fresh branch off an existing trunk with the intentions of trying
> out a few trunk-to-branch and branch –to-trunk merges.
>
> Here are the steps I took
>
> (a) created a new branch from an existing trunk
>
> svn cp -m "created a new branch from tfb/trunk/www"
> svn+ssh://HOST/svnroot/tfb/trunk/www
> svn+ssh://HOST/svnroot/tfb/branches/tfb1
>
> (b) checked out tfb/trunk/www and edited some files and committed into
> tfb/trunk/www
>
> (c) checked out tfb/branches/tfb1 and merged tfb/trunk/www
>
> $ svn merge svn+ssh://HOST/svnroot/tfb/trunk/www <wc-tfb1>
>
> --- Merging r115503 through r115504 into '.':
> U scripts/hallofheroes/parse-svn-commits
> U scripts/hallofheroes/test_parse_svn_commits
>
> (d) svn commit –m "commit test" <wc-tfb1>
>
> (d) Listed svn:mergeinfo on svn+ssh://HOST/svnroot/tfb/branches/tfb1
>
> Output ==>>
>
> /tfb/branches/facelift/www:r218-5929
> /tfb/trunk/www:r12-217,115503-115504
>
> *ISSUE*: This is a rather strange merge information. I would have expected
> something like "/tfb/trunk/www:12-115504". Also what happened to all the
> commits between 217 & 115500. A "svn log
> svn+ssh://HOST/svnroot/tfb/trunk/www" indicates thousands of commits?
>
> However a subsequent merge doesn't update any files except for the dummy
> svn:mergeinfo update to reflect the latest committed revision.
>
> Is there something to with the repository history [ 4 yrs worth of stuff ] —
> can this be changed so that I can it represented as 0-115504 being blocked
> from further merges.
The mergeinfo property does not include the "natural history" of a
path. So in the perfect case, the property would have had this value:
/tfb/trunk/www:r115503-115504
As for the other values, did you look to see if there was any property
value before you did this merge?
--
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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Received on 2008-08-18 15:48:43 CEST