> I am running into the error:
>
> svn: Cannot reintegrate from 'url://feature-branch' yet:
> Some revisions have been merged under it that have not been merged
> into the reintegration target; merge them first, then retry.
>
> I came across a collab.net blog site[1] that referenced this issue. So I
> tried it in 1.6.6 too, which gave me a little more information - namely,
> one path in my branch seems to be missing a revision from trunk. In
> examining the svn:mergeinfo, it seems to be an 'off-by-one' - the
> svn:merge info records 5627:6031 as being merged but not 5626. I synced
> the branch using a 1.5.1 client; and running svn diff url-trunk url-branch
> produces only a delta in the svn:mergeinfo; so I am assuming the files are
> identical.
>
> The merge revision in question adds a folder and file.
>
> Reading more of the blog points to a forum[2], and following that I found a
> post[3] that references doing a record only merge, which I tried (using a
> 1.6.6 client), but it didn't seem to resolve the 'off-by-one' issue.
>
> So, is it:
>
> i) safe to just delete the svn:mergeinfo in this case?
> ii) is is safer/better to just 'svn pedit svn:mergeinfo' to include the
> extra revision? (e.g. edit 5627:6031 -> 5626:6013)
>
> Would 'ii' even work? If so, which is (a) better, (b) safer?
>
> I kind of lean towards 'i' since (1) it seems to be documented, and (2) the
> files do seem to be the same. But I'd like to understand this a little more
> before I do something.
>
> TIA,
>
> Ben
>
> [1]http://blogs.open.collab.net/svn/2008/07/subversion-merg.html
> [3]http://subversion.open.collab.net/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4&dsMessag
> eId=99955
How did you try the record-only merge?
I already had this kind of issue and record-only merges have always worked for me.
Arpad Ilia
Received on 2010-09-14 09:38:56 CEST