On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Daniel Becroft <djcbecroft_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:44 PM, David Weintraub <qazwart_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Daniel Becroft <djcbecroft_at_gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > We've recently had to rename a couple of files on trunk by case only
>> > (e.g.
>> > FOO.C to foo.c), which we did via a URL-only rename. This worked
>> > perfectly.
>> >
>> > We then encountered a strange error when attempting to merge this
>> > revision
>> > across to our release branch. Because the revision contains both an ADD
>> > and
>> > a DELETE for (essentially) the same file, we got an "Error bumping
>> > revisions
>> > post-commit)" message. I've reproduced the error with a sandpit
>> > environment
>> > using 1.6.13 (below).
>>
>> Okay, you're using Windows. On Windows, Foo and foo are the same file,
>> but on Unix, they're two different files. Subversion is suppose to be
>> case sensitive, so Foo and foo are two different files in Subversion
>> whether or not the server or client are on Windows systems or Unix
>> systems.
>
> I realize that, hence why we did our initial renames via URLs, rather than
> in a working copy. My question was not so much "Why did I get this
> message?", but how should such a change be merged between trunk and branch.
> Any merge requires a working copy.
>
> I suspect that the correct method is:
> - Merge everything up to and including) rX-1, and commit.
> - Rename file manually over URL
> - Record-only merge of rX
> - Merge everything from (and including) rX+1 to HEAD, and commit.
All that I can add to this discussion is that with 1.7 (wc-ng) this
will actually start to work! (as in: it works on trunk/ today! yay!
finally!)
>> Do you have any post-commit hooks? If you are, are the messages being
>> generated by Subversion or the post commit hooks?
>
> The messages are being generated by the client (there were no post-commit
> hooks in my sample repository).
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel B.
>
Bye,
Erik.
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