I verified that this test also fails the same way on the latest
subversion trunk (1.10.0-dev).
Pass: 1.6.11
Pass: 1.7.17
Fail: 1.8.11
Fail: 1.10.0-dev
Is there a reason not to open a bug report?
Thanks,
--Pete
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 4:54 PM, Pete Harlan <pchpublic88_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you for your reply.
>
>> the mergeinfo tells that it didn't merge to that node.
>
> Once I've resolved the tree conflict, is there a sense in which it
> didn't merge everything in /trunk into /branches/branch? Marking the
> tree conflict resolved doesn't remove the svn:mergeinfo property from
> dir/file.txt, but from my perspective, I've told Subversion how to
> resolve the merge and therefore want it to consider the two branches
> fully merged going forward.
>
> If the behavior is intentional, what is the recommended way to tell
> Subversion that I consider the two paths fully merged? And is this
> difference meant to be introduced in 1.8 vs. 1.7? From what I read it
> looked like merge semantics weren't intended to change, just some of
> the client-side bookkeeping.
>
> Thank you for your time,
>
> --Pete
>
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Bert Huijben <bert_at_qqmail.nl> wrote:
>> I don’t know whether it is a bug or a feature. Storing this value will make
>> a future merge handle the partial merge that was skipped at first: the
>> mergeinfo tells that it didn't merge to that node.
>>
>> There are two ways to remember that: record ‘non inheritable’ info on the
>> direct parent, and then again on all children that are merged… The untouched
>> node is then unaffected, but future merges will be slower as more nodes have
>> specific merge-info. Storing it just on the node that is not merged as you
>> see here is the other option, which will keep your further merges faster.
>>
>> In 1.6 we could in general not change the node affected by a tree conflict,
>> so we always had to choose the slow option. With the central metadata
>> storage we can do things more efficient… and this allowed fixing a lot of
>> known issues of previous versions.
>>
>> Bert
>> Sent from Windows Mail
>>
>> From: Pete Harlan
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 11:16 PM
>> To: 'subversion'
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Subversion 1.8.11 behaves differently than 1.7.17 and 1.6.11, in that
>> it sets empty svn:mergeinfo properties for files within a
>> tree-conflicted directory during a merge. The effect is this:
>>
>> Layout:
>>
>> /trunk
>> /branches/branch
>>
>> Add empty dir/file.txt to trunk and independently to branch.
>> Merge trunk to branch; the resulting merge generates:
>>
>> % svn propget -v svn:mergeinfo -R
>> Properties on '.':
>> svn:mergeinfo
>> /trunk:2-4
>> Properties on 'dir/file.txt':
>> svn:mergeinfo
>>
>> %
>>
>> Expected result is that no svn:mergeinfo property would appear on
>> dir/file.txt. Is this a bug? A known bug?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Pete
>>
>> Script to reproduce (run as "script.sh /path/to/svn"):
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>> #
>> # Reproduce an issue in Subversion 1.8.11 where files in a tree
>> # conflict can have svn:mergeinfo properties added to them during a
>> # merge.
>> set -e
>>
>> SERVER_DIR=server
>> CLIENT_DIR=client
>>
>> if [ $# != 1 ]; then
>> echo "usage: $0 <path to svn>"
>> exit
>> fi
>>
>> SVN=$1
>> SVNADMIN="$(dirname $SVN)/svnadmin"
>>
>> SERVER_URL="file:///$PWD/$SERVER_DIR"
>>
>> createAndCommitSubdirWithFile ()
>> {
>> mkdir dir
>> touch dir/file.txt
>> $SVN add dir
>> $SVN commit -m "$1"
>> $SVN update # Update . to committed rev
>> }
>>
>> # Create the repo and enter it.
>> $SVNADMIN create $SERVER_DIR
>> $SVN checkout $SERVER_URL $CLIENT_DIR
>> cd $CLIENT_DIR
>>
>> # Create the trunk/branches structure
>> mkdir trunk
>> mkdir branches
>> $SVN add trunk branches
>> $SVN commit -m 'Create initial structure'
>>
>> # Make a branch from the trunk.
>> $SVN copy ^/trunk ^/branches/branch -m 'Create branch from trunk'
>>
>> # Commit a subdir with a file in it in the trunk and commit it.
>> $SVN switch --ignore-ancestry ^/trunk
>> createAndCommitSubdirWithFile 'Committed on trunk'
>>
>> # Commit a subdir with a file in it in the branch and commit it.
>> $SVN switch ^/branches/branch
>> createAndCommitSubdirWithFile 'Committed on branch'
>>
>> # Merge the trunk and display any svn:mergeinfo properties.
>> # (Remove --non-interactive if testing svn prior to 1.7)
>> $SVN merge --non-interactive ^/trunk || true
>> $SVN propget svn:mergeinfo -R . >actual.out
>>
>> echo '. - /trunk:2-4' >expected.out
>>
>> $SVN --version | head -1
>>
>> if diff -q actual.out expected.out; then
>> echo Success
>> else
>> echo 'Test failed!'
>> echo 'Expected output:'
>> cat expected.out
>> echo 'Actual output:'
>> cat actual.out
>> exit 1
>> fi
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