Re: Merge mishap

On Sep 3, 2008, at 8:12 PM, Paul Koning wrote:

> I have a merge problem with SVN 1.3 or thereabouts; I wonder if this
> is an old bug.
>
> Scenario goes like this:
>
> rev 10: branch trunk to branches/a
> rev 20: make some changes to trunk/file1
> rev 25: make some changes to branches/a/file1
> rev 30: rename branches/a/files1 to branches/a/file2
>
> Now merge revs 10:30 from branches/a to trunk.
>
> Result: trunk now has "file2" with the changes that were in rev 25 on
> the branch. "file1" is gone, because the rename amounts to a delete
> of the old name.
>
> The problem: the change in rev 20 to trunk/file1 is silently lost. It
> should be a conflict.
>
> Is this fixed in a more recent release? If not, it's a major bug that
> needs fixing...

As far as I know, this unfortunate behavior still occurs with
Subversion 1.5.2, though I did not test it.

Possibly this issue:

http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2685

And this:

http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3210

And, for good measure, this:

http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=898

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Received on 2008-09-04 07:04:34 CEST