Did you try it without using Dry Run... I have found at times that can cause issues. There's really no need to use dry run since you can just revert. Just make sure you have no pending changes in your target working copy.
From: C M [mailto:cmanalyst66_at_gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 12:39 PM
To: C. Michael Pilato
Cc: Subversion
Subject: Re: Ancestrally Related Error Message
I think my earlier mistake might have been that I was using the --reintegrate option.
Without it, I make some progress, but still not quite what I am expecting.
Again, given that trunk is empty, why the "C" (tree conflicts)? I would expect all of then to be "A" (additions), no?
The DEV_WC currently only shows the two dirs which SVN correctly recognized as additions.
c:\Temp\DEV_WC>svn merge --dry-run --ignore-ancestry https://path_to_branch/SCR_BR/
--- Merging r1191 through r1245 into '.':
C ini
C txt
C graphics
C MMI
C backups
C sysctrl
A sysconfig
A sysconfig\src
A sysconfig\src\sysconfig
A sysconfig\src\sysconfig.c
A sysconfig\src\sysconfig_init.c
A sysconfig\src\log
A sysconfig\src\makefile
A sysconfig\inc
C cpu
A mtl
A mtl\lib
A mtl\lib\mtl.lib
A mtl\src
A mtl\src\mtl_meter.c
A mtl\src\mtl
A mtl\src\makefile
A mtl\src\mtl.c
A mtl\inc
A mtl\inc\mtl_meter.h
C util_panel
U .
Summary of conflicts:
Tree conflicts: 8
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:38 AM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net<mailto:cmpilato_at_collab.net>> wrote:
On 06/17/2013 11:19 AM, C M wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Code for a new development effort was imported into a developer's branch.
>
> Now we want merge his changes to trunk (which is currently empty).
>
> I tried the merge from both the command line and the Tortoise GUI and keep
> running into the "...must be ancestrally related..." message.I also tried the
> "ignore ancestry" option via the GUI.
>
> One, I don't understand why SVN thinks there is even an ancestral
> relationship betweeen the two locations?
Subversion doesn't think there is. Rather, it knows there isn't. Hence the
message. The error was introduced to prevent a common mistake folks make
when they misalign their merge sources and targets:
$ svn merge ^/trunk branches
^C^C^Cdangit i meant to type "branches/my-branch"^C^Caaaaagh!
> Two, how can I do to get around this error message?
Well... the --ignore-ancestry option was *supposed* to make that happen for
you. Perhaps there's a bug?
You may need to give a more complete transcript of what you're trying,
including command-line examples and such.
--
C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net<mailto:cmpilato_at_collab.net>>
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Received on 2013-06-17 18:49:44 CEST