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Re: Issue in svn E195020

From: Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 21:48:26 +0200

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Scott Aron Bloom <scott_at_towel42.com> wrote:
> Running svn from tortoise (1.8.11 r1643975) but we have the same issue with
> the same version from VisualSVN, as well as the collabnet on linux
>
>
>
> Unfortunately, this is going to be a problem to duplicate this since its
> only on our full source repository.
>
>
>
> We work with a bunch of branches, but sometime in the last month or two,
> merging has become virtually useless for those working on a branch.
>
>
>
> Our typical flow, which has been working with zero issues for the last 5
> years, is
>
>
>
> Developer creates a “dev” branch
>
> svn cp ^/trunk ^/branch/dev/mybranch
>
> svn co ^/branch/dev/mybranch
>
>
>
> Developer, will work on their branch on their local work area, and merge
> semi-regularly from trunk onto their branch
>
> svn merge ^/trunk .
>
>
>
> Its has been common, that after the merge, if another merge is attempted we
> get the E195020 error, (cannot merge into mixed-revision), a simple
>
> svn up
>
> Fixes the issue, however lately, the svn up fails, and the E195020
> continues.
>

Why does svn up fail? Error message? It would be interesting to
address this first, because merging into a uniform revision working
copy is still the recommended workflow.

>
> I can work with anyone necessary to fix this.. but right now, its making
> merging a nightmare./
>

If this is really problematic, you might want to use the option
--allow-mixed-revisions when you 'svn merge'.

-- 
Johan
Received on 2015-03-30 21:51:30 CEST

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