Sanity check following botched --reintegrate

Dear SVN users:

My group is using SVN 1.5.7, and our repository includes a trunk and several branches forked from the trunk. We recently tried to reintegrate a synchronized branch to the trunk but used the wrong syntax, and the error was not detected until after the commit. Instead of:

'svn merge —reintegrate URL-TO-BRANCH'

we used:

'svn merge —reintegrate URL-TO-TRUNK URL-TO-BRANCH'

This command was run within a working copy of the trunk.

As far as I can tell, the commit merged in all the changes unique to the branch, and the trunk and branch svn:mergeinfo files do not indicate anything unusual. However, the —reintegrate syntax we used does not match any example I've found on-line, and I'm aware that after a normal —reintegrate the branch is not considered suitable for further work. My questions:

  * Is the trunk still suitable for further work (i.e., new commits and resyncs to the other branches)? What is the best way to find out?
  * If the trunk is "corrupt", what is the best way to repair the damage? (Should we copy earlier revisions of the trunk and branch, delete the trunk and branch, rename the new trunk-fork and branch-fork, and try to reintegrate again?)

Thanks,

-Eric

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Eric M. Kemp Goddard Space Flight Center
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Received on 2014-03-12 15:39:04 CET