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Re: Merge Behaviour.

From: Gavin 'Beau' Baumanis <beau_at_palcare.com.au>
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 11:49:51 +1100

Hi and thanks for the replies.

Here is the recipe.

I have a trunk/file1_at_r10
it contains the following;
"
This is line 1
This is line 2
"

file1 already exists in trunk/myOtherDirectory/file1

The contents of trunk/myOtherDirectory/file1 aren't really
important... but for ease of illustration - lets assume it is
currently identical to trunk/file1
That is: trunk/myOtherDirectory/file1 contains
"
This is line 1
This is line 2
"

I then edit trunk/file1 and now have the following for trunk/file1_at_r11
"
This is line 1
This is line 2
This is line 3
"

I replicate this process several times (1 line per revision) until I
have the contents of trunk.file1_at_r15
"
This is line 1
This is line 2
This is line 3
This is line 4
This is line 5
This is line 6
This is line 7
"

Now when I do run the following command within my WC,
svn merge -r 13:15 trunk/file1 trunk/myOtherDirectory/file1

I expect trunk/myOtherDirectory/file1
to contain;

"
This is line 1
This is line 2
This is line 6
This is line 7
"

I don't really care what happened to trunk/file1 prior to r14, I just
want the changes made in r14:15 of trunk/file1 to be "patched" to
trunk/file1 trunk/myOtherDirectory/file1

What I found myself doing, (automatically) was choosing (tf) Their
File - which competely explains, why trunk/file1 trunk/
myOtherDirectory/file1 is now a copy trunk/file1

But it still leaves me with the issue of how do I get just those
changes in r14:15, to trunk/file1 trunk/myOtherDirectory/file1?

If I choose (e) edit, then I get the differences between the two
files... I.e. the merge-right section contains ALL that is different
and not just what was changed in r14:15 of trunk/file1
So it makes it a little difficult to know how to manually edit the
file to correctly merge in just the changes of r14:15

Once again, Thanks or any help you might be able to provide.

Gavin

On 21/02/2009, at 2:09 AM, Stefan Sperling wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 09:49:32AM -0500, Bob Archer wrote:
>>> using the following command;
>>> svn merge -r 1234:head /trunk/directoryA/file1 /trunk/directoryB/
>>> file3
>>>
>>> I expected all changes that were made file1 from revision 1235: head
>>> to be placed into file3.
>>
>> I really don't think merge was designed to work the way you expect.
>> You
>> really need to do a svn diff then apply that diff to file3.
>
> No. It was designed for this.
> svn merge is essentially just like diff+patch (+ merge-tracking).
> What Gavin wants to do works for me (see below).
>
> Gavin, make sure you specified paths correctly.
> The command you posted looks incorrect:
>
> svn merge -r 1234:head /trunk/directoryA/file1 /trunk/directoryB/
> file3
>
> This would look for a file on your disk, in a working copy called
> /trunk. Use a full URL for file1, or proper working copy path for
> file1.
> Use a proper working copy path for file3.
>
> Use svn diff to see what changes would be merged, before running
> svn merge. Once you are happy with the diff, just replace 'diff'
> with 'merge'
> on the command line, and add the destination path, to do the merge.
>
> Working example, inside a working copy (with a trunk client, but
> should also work with 1.5):
>
> $ cat alpha
> alpha, modified
> $ cat beta
> beta
> $ svn diff -r2:3 alpha
> Index: alpha
> ===================================================================
> --- alpha (revision 2)
> +++ alpha (revision 3)
> @@ -1 +1 @@
> -alpha
> +alpha, modified
> $ svn merge -r2:3 alpha beta
> Conflict discovered in 'beta'.
> Select: (p) postpone, (df) diff-full, (e) edit,
> (mc) mine-conflict, (tc) theirs-conflict,
> (s) show all options: p
> --- Merging r3 into 'beta':
> C beta
> Summary of conflicts:
> Text conflicts: 1
> $ cat beta
> <<<<<<< .working
> beta
> =======
> alpha, modified
>>>>>>>> .merge-right.r3
> $
>
> Stefan

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