Re: merging advice

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Jeremy Mordkoff <jlm_at_zeevee.com> wrote:
> We recently started using merge tracking. My first attempt at updating SVN
> to create all of the correct svn:mergeinfo records was somewhat successful.
> I was able in the end to run a svn mergeinfo report and get accurate  info
> back.

It sounds like you have done this yourself somwhat manually? How did you do it?

> But as part of all of this, I have ended up with some strange entries in my
> merge-info records, for example, this is for the top of /zcode/trunk:
>
> /repos/zcode/trunk:8*
> /zcode/branches/es_zvb_reset:9521-9652*
> /zcode/branches/rel_2_1:8309-9341*,9605*,9633*
> /zcode/branches/rel_2_2:9342-9680*
> /zcode/trunk:9-8308*,8603*,8612-8613*,8621*,8809*,8850*,8924*,9053*,9122*,9271*
>
> The first entry makes no sense to me as it includes the /repos part of the
> path which is a directory name on the server and NOT part of the path names
> in svn.

I'd probably just fix it. How did it get there?

> The next three lines make sense
>
> The last line also does not make sense to me as there should be no need to
> record a merge from trunk to trunk.

There have been various fixes to not record self-referential
mergeinfo. Are you using 1.6.5 client do to this? I would edit the
property to remove that.

> Should I be worried?

I would be concerned about all of those *. That tells me you probably
did something like use a depth=empty working copy to record mergeinfo.
 The * tell Subversion the mergeinfo is not inheritable. I'd probably
just edit the property to remove the * and then do not do it that way
again in the future.

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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