Re: Weird merge problem

Mike Meyer wrote:
>
>
> Ron Hunter-Duvar <ron.hunter-duvar_at_oracle.com> wrote on 04/21/2009
> 05:51:06 PM:
>
> >
> >
> > 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 don't like that solution - I feel like it mucks up the history of
> the trunk. I'd do the merge with "--accept theirs-full" instead, which
> will do what you did with the merge files - only automatically. The
> end result will be the same, except for the history, so it's realy
> just a matter of which you prefer.
>
> <mike
Actually, compared to committing several thousand individual changes,
with no record of where they came from other than the log message, a
simple delete and copy with clear log messages tells me more. Keep in
mind that this is an unusual case, in that there is no trunk history to
muck up. The trunk hasn't been touched in years (before I came on the
project and kind of by default took over control of the version control
process), and is so far out of date with the current that there's no
history of interest there.

I don't have a '--accept-theirs-full' option listed either in the red
book or in "svn help merge". I got a private suggestion to try the
"--reintegrate" option, which I also don't have. I neglected to mention
that we're still on svn 1.4, which may be why I don't have those options
available.

But thanks for the input.

Ron

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