subversion fails to detect correct merge direction (sync/reintegrate), how to override?

        Hi all!

The new "automatic merge" feature in subversion 1.8 look promising, but in our case prevents merging the trunk into a branch since subversion incorrectly interprets this operation as a reintegration merge and complains about missing revisions which should have been merged first. I can force the merge by explicitly selecting the range of revisions not yet merged, but this is exactly what merge tracking should do for me. So I have two questions:

*) Is it possible to override subversion's decision on the merge type (i.e., force a sync merge)?

*) What could be the source of confusion which leads to the incorrect merge classification? Maybe some complex and/or broken svn:mergeinfo property?

        Thanks & kind regards,
                Markus

Dr. Markus Grabner
Research Department / Algorithms

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Received on 2013-08-05 12:35:06 CEST