Re: using "svn merge", "svn diff", and "svn patch"

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 01:16:40PM -0400, James Hanley wrote:
> Not sure if this is a valid operation, but should I be able to use svn
> merge, then svn diff to create a patch, then svn patch on another branch
> (or pristine checkout of the originating branch where the diff was created)
> to create a replica of the merge operation?

No. 'svn patch' is not intended to be a drop-in replacement for 'svn merge'.

> The reason I ask is that it appears not to do that.. I get an "Skipped
> missing target" error on one file that was added with history with the
> merge,

I guess what happened is that you didn't use the --show-copies-as-adds
option for 'svn diff' when you created the diff. svn patch cannot handle
copies, only additions, due to restrictions of the unidiff format.

> another in the same path that doesn't error or add, and apparently
> no mergeinfo included at all.

svn patch doesn't support mergeinfo either.
See http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3747
Received on 2013-08-20 21:29:34 CEST