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Re: svn merge vs svnmerge.py

From: Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:59:25 -0400

We are seeing huge performance gains with merge in 1.5.3. But make
sure your working copy is at HEAD to get the benefits.

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On Oct 10, 2008, at 5:35 PM, Murli Varadachari <mvaradachari_at_facebook.com
> wrote:

>
> I have had similar problems with “svn merge —reintegrate” and
> have stopped using it [ and / or recommending it to developers ]. T
> here is also the fact that the merge operation is v.slow.
>
> Cheers
> murli
>
>
> On 10/10/08 1:31 PM, "Carsten Koch" <Carsten.Koch_at_icem.com> wrote:
>
> Henrik Sundberg wrote:
> ...
> > Is svn merge as easy/safe to use as svnmerge.py?
>
> We have our own (Python) merge code which works quite well
> with subversion 1.4.6.
>
> I tested merge tracking before upgrading to subversion 1.5.2.
> All worked fine in my test cases.
>
> When I tried to use it IRL, nothing worked.
>
>
> I am getting the error message
>
> svn: Cannot reintegrate from '<URL>' yet:
> Some revisions have been merged under it that have not been merged
> into the reintegration target; merge them first, then retry.
>
> on plain vanilla "branch from trunk" / "change a file in branch"
> "commit change into branch" / "svn merge --reintegrate <branch URL>"
> operations.
>
> If I delete the "svn:mergeinfo" property from all subtrees
> (which partially defeats the purpose of course), it works slightly
> better, but I am still getting strange errors frequently, such as
> merge conflicts on the "svn:mergeinfo" property itself!
>
> IMHO, merge tracking does not work under practical conditions yet.
>
> I guess it will be useless at least for us until
>
> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3128
>
> gets fixed.
>
> Carsten.
>
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