Re: Ancestrally Related Error Message

Well, for what its worth, I was able to complete the "merge" following
steps 3 -6 in this article.

http://kirenpillay.blogspot.com/2012/07/svn-merge-tree-conflict-resolution.html

I don't understand why SVN behaved the way it did and prevented the branch
to trunk merge as expected..

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 12:59 PM, C M <cmanalyst66_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > We are on SVN 1.7.6.
> >
> > Trunk is empty because this is/was a new development effort. The code was
> > directly imported into the developer's branch.
> >
> > I ran these two commans in the working copy and get the messages you
> > mentioned. What does that mean?
> >
> > c:\Temp\DEV_WC>svn merge --dry-run --revision 1190:1233
> > c:\Temp\DEV_WC>svn status
> > M .
> > ! C MMI
> > > local delete, incoming edit upon merge
> [...]
>
> And you are merging into a working copy that is a checkout of the
> empty trunk? Anyway if the trunk is empty you should get the same
> result if you just copy the branch to it.
>
> --
> Les Mikesell
> lesmikesell_at_gmail.com
>
Received on 2013-06-17 23:02:14 CEST