Re: svn merge fails "Out of memory - terminating application." or Tortoise runtime error

Do not know if this thread is still alive but hopefull will help somone else
as spent ages trying to sort out same error.

In short I managed to trace the problem (performing merge sub directory by
sub directory) to a directory of approx 1200 files that had a svn:mergeinfo
property which was blank.

seen by running
svn propget svn:mergeinfo --recursive --xml > mergeinfo.xml

once removed (hope someone is not going to tell me off for sugesting the
wrong thing here) with
svn propdel --recursive svn:mergeinfo ./*

I was able to start performing branch to trunk working copy merges
successfully after that.

My theory (I am not an svn expert so take it with a grain of salt). I had
picked up all these mergeinfo properties (probably from an earlier svn move
(rename) restructuring exercise), but when a merge was being performed there
were so many that examining all these caused memory usage to go through the
roof (2+ GB) which eventually caused abnormal termination. Either that or
there might be a bug (memory leak?) handling empty merge info properties.

Hope that helps

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