Ran into this too, recently - the key "mental model" change is that
--depth sticks to the individual directory, and that merge obeys it.
(This is probably a defect in merge though, since I've seen a number
of people stumble across it - merge isn't *like* update, if you've
built a structure with specific updates within a --depth=empty tree,
it seems reasonable to expect merge to follow them... since the
directory isn't *really "empty", it's
"empty-plus-these-specific-choices".)
(We also just added --depth=infinite to our cherry-pick merge wrapper
script, and most engineers use that instead of direct svn commands
anyway.)
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Jeff Yemin <jeff.yemin_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm doing some testing of the interaction between sparse working copies and
>> svn merge, and the results seem like a bug, but I wanted to check on the
>> list first.
>>
>> I have a rather large project whose structure would benefit greatly from a
>> sparse working copy. I branched the trunk of this project, and created a
>> sparse working copy of the branch. Next, I made a change on the trunk to a
>> file that is part of the sparse working copy. I then ran the mergeinfo
>> command on the working copy of the branch, and it detected that this change
>> could be applied to the working copy:
>>
>> $ svn mergeinfo https://myserver.com/modules/mymodule/trunk --show-revs
>> eligible
>> r34079
>>
>> Next I did a dry run of the merge, but there was no output. I found this
>> peculiar so I did the merge for real and ran svn diff to see if it actually
>> did anything, and I got output like this:
>>
>> $ svn merge -c 34079 https://myserver.com/modules/mymodule/trunk
>
> Try adding --depth=infinite to the merge command. I believe in your
> example it would use the same depth as the current folder.
>
> --
> Thanks
>
> Mark Phippard
> http://markphip.blogspot.com/
>
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