SVN merge attempting to reintegrate on a merge to a branch

Hi,

We are encountering an issue when trying to merge trunk to a branch. We originally posted this issue to the CollabNet forums (http://subversion.open.collab.net/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4&dsMessageId=499929) but they suggested we should contact this list.

We maintain a few branches from our trunk project and we periodically merge back and forth between the trunk project and the branches. When we have work in a branch that we need to reintegrate to trunk we first merge trunk up to the branch and then merge (reintegrate) the branch back down to trunk. We are using SVN version 1.8 so we no longer specify the —reintegrate option as from what I understand the client should now identify what type of merge to do. This process had been working well for until recently when we started getting some errors.

We are using Apache 1.8.0 clients, CollabNet Subversion native binaries 1.8.1 (and CollabNet Subversion Edge 4.0.1). Our setup is a fairly straightforward configuration, we have trunk projects in $SVNROOT/svn/trunk/<projectname> and branches in $SVNROOT/svn/branches/<projectname>/features/<branchname> so for example if we have a project called my_project and branch of this project called my_project_branch, they would be in the repository in the following paths $SVNROOT/trunk/my_project and $SVNROOT/branches/my_project/features/my_project_branch. The $SVNROOT is just a variable we use that corresponds the repository URL e.g. https://our.svn.servername/svn.

Recently when we attempted to merge a trunk project to a branch (in preparation of doing a merge of the branch back to trunk) we are got errors like the following:

$ svn merge $SVNROOT/trunk/my_project .
svn: E195016: Reintegrate can only be used if revisions 4401 through 4545 were previously merged from https://our.svn.servername/svn/branches/my_project/features/my_project_branch to the reintegrate source, but this is not the case:
  trunk/my_project
    Missing ranges: /trunk/my_project:4485
    Missing ranges: /trunk/my_project:4407-4408,4431,4442-4444,4485,4524,4532-4533

I was not expecting this error because we had previously merged the trunk project to the branch and merged the branch back down to trunk successfully so as far as I'm aware there should be no missing revisions. Also I am surprised that a reintegrate merge is being attempted when trying to merge from the trunk project to the branch project because, as I understand, the reintegrate should only happen when merging content from a branch to a project that the branch was created from.

I have run the svn merginfo command which gave the following output:

$ svn mergeinfo $SVNROOT/trunk/my_project .
    youngest common ancestor
    | last full merge
    | | tip of branch
    | | | repository path

    4400 4545
    | |
  -------| |------------ trunk/my_project
     \ /
      \ /
       --| |------------ branches/my_project/features/my_project_branch
              | |
              4531 4541

Can you please help us track down and resolve the issue?

I'm not sure if it makes any difference but the branch was created using the repository browser in eclipse with the Subclipse plugin v3.0.0 using Subversion Client Adapter version 1.8.6

Many Thanks,
Stefan
Received on 2013-09-13 18:28:02 CEST