RE: svn:mergeinfo resurrecting from the dead

Hi Stein,

> I'm in the same environment as you describe, but the only times
> svn:mergeinfo mysteriously reappear is when using svn copy, not merges.

That's interesting. So you have something relatively similar happening, where svn:mergeinfo reappears after deleting it? It could be related I guess.

> > And then the original bunch of 60 odd files get the svn:mergeinfo
> property added.
>
> Maybe because amongst the unmerged revisions are old changesets that
> include updates to the svn:mergeinfo property of these files? No, you
> wrote you created the branch on a clean trunk.

Yes, the trunk is clean, I actually ran this on it:

svn propdel svn:mergeinfo -R

and then I branched off, and the branch didn't have any svn:mergeinfo properties set on it. In fact, it's not once or twice, I've gone through this several times already for several feature branches, and every time the same thing happens: branch clean, update branch with clean trunk, svn:mergeinfo appears.

> Maybe someone copied old revisions of files and their mergeinfo into
> this clean trunk? But then you would notice the mergeinfo reappear in
> trunk as well.

Nope, since I consistently verify the trunk and it is clean of svn:mergeinfo.

It is really a mystery, and I am beginning to think there's something wrong with my svn repo on the server, maybe it's corrupted in some way.

Thanks!

Carles
Received on 2010-05-18 15:13:25 CEST