Re: Weird merge problem

Bob Archer wrote:
>> The last commit to trunk was r1003. The branch was made at r7232
>>
> (based
>
>> on "svn log --stop-on-copy") and worked on up to r12212 (the current
>> head revision), then frozen. I checked out a clean working copy of
>>
> trunk
>
>> at r12212. From within the clean trunk working copy I did this
>>
> command:
>
>> svn merge -r 7232:12212 $REPOS/branch
>>
>
> Don't you need to specify the branch folder???
>
> svn merge -r 7232:12212 $REPOS/branch/ThisBranchHere
>
> Usually you copy into a folder of branch when you do the branch. Don't
> you?
>
> What if you just try:
>
> svn merge $REPOS/branch
>
> if you are using svn 1.5 or newer it should figure out what revision
> range needs to be merged.
>
> That said... if you just want to move your branch as is to your trunk
> you can delete trunk and copy the branch to trunk.
>
> BOb
>
When I said $REPOS/branch that was just short hand for the full url,
svn://<repository>/branches/<name-of-branch>. I know I got that part
right (if I didn't, it would have made a much bigger mess, pulling in a
bunch of old branches).

I was working around the problem by deleting all the *.working and
*.merge-left.r0 files and moving all the *.merge-right.r12212 files to
their base names, and some other clean up (seems merge won't delete
stuff that's in trunk but was deleted from branch). But I think your
delete and copy is a much better solution. I'll do that instead. Thanks.

I'd still like to know what I did wrong though. Or is this how merge is
supposed to work (I hope not)?

Ron

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