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Re: Can I convince svn 1.5 that a random directory is really a branch off of trunk?

From: Peter Kahn <citizenkahn_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:26:45 -0400

Well, it looks like it works except I cannot use the --reintegratee option
when merging to trunk because the branches are not ancestral. So, its not
perfect, but it seems viable in a small case.

Anyone know if collabnet made a tool to alter the ancestral relationship of
branches?

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Peter Kahn <citizenkahn_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Ah, so the answer is appears to be "yes": manipulate the mergeinfo for
> trunk and the "branch" such that at branch origin is its recorded as
> synchronized with trunk.
>
> r1000 branch created via add by converter
> r1001-HEAD both branch and trunk modified by various modifications
>
> modify trunk's mergeinfo with /branch/foo:1-1000
> modify branch's mergeinfo with trunk:1-1000
>
> Now branch and trunk should assume that they are insync as of branch
> creation. Now, merges between them should work properly.
>
> I came up with this plan after reading some of this doc:
>
> http://www.collab.net/community/subversion/articles/merge-info.html
>
>
> *Does this make sense?*
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Peter Kahn <citizenkahn_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I recently used the Polarion converter to import my MKS repository to
>> svn. I had to make some changes to support a cutoff point based on date for
>> the export out of MKS. I confused the importer and now my svn repository
>> has branches the are really adds of 1000s of files instead of a proper
>> branch.
>>
>> Is there a way for me to tell SVN that "project/branch/1.0_integration"
>> came from trunk @ revision 450?
>>
>>
>> Right now, when I try to merge between branches merge the svn application
>> takes 100% cpu and gobbles up all of my ram before terminating with an
>> out-of-memory error.
>>
>> I can dump my repository and rebuild it with a skeleton of tags branching
>> where appropriate, but I'll loose the who-did-what history and I'd really
>> like to keep that.
>>
>> So, anyone have any ideas? Or can someone point me at the right place for
>> me to RTFM?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> --
>> Peter Kahn
>> citizenkahn_at_gmail.com
>> pkahnpie1_at_AIM
>> http://citizenkahn.myplaxo.com
>> Awareness - Intention - Action
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Peter Kahn
> citizenkahn_at_gmail.com
> pkahnpie1_at_AIM
> http://citizenkahn.myplaxo.com
> Awareness - Intention - Action
>

-- 
Peter Kahn
citizenkahn_at_gmail.com
pkahnpie1_at_AIM
http://citizenkahn.myplaxo.com
Awareness - Intention - Action
Received on 2008-10-23 18:27:12 CEST

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