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Re: Reintegration problem

From: David Aldrich <david.aldrich.ntml_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 13:09:19 +0000

Hi Stefan

Thanks for your reply. I am using svn 1.11.

I tried the command you suggested but, although it succeeded, there was
nothing to commit afterwards.

best regards

David

On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 12:58 PM Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 12:31:12PM +0000, David Aldrich wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I have a branch to which I have carefully merged all changes from the
> trunk
> > over the past year. Today I want to reintegrate the branch into the
> trunk.
> > When I attempt to do so I get error:
> >
> > Reintegrate can only be used if revisions 8908 through 10479 were
> > previously merged from <snip>/trunk
> > to the reintegrate source, but this is not the case:
> >
> branches/TRY_NECA_01Feb2018/Simulations/Leda5G/RegressionTests/LEDA_DLBF_32Tx_8User_EPA5_MCS17_Rank2_RosellaBF.xml
> > Missing ranges:
> >
> /trunk/Simulations/Leda5G/RegressionTests/LEDA_DLBF_32Tx_8User_EPA5_MCS17_Rank2_RosellaBF.xml:9491
> >
> > The merge info for the branch is:
> >
> > /branches/TML_TRY_MassiveMIMO_25April2016:7280-8557
> > <snip>
> > /trunk:8908-10478
>
> Mergeinfo on /branches/TML_TRY_MassiveMIMO_25April201 could be overridden
> by svn:mergeinfo properties on deeper paths. The above mergeinfo only
> applies to sub-paths which do not have their own svn:mergeinfo property.
>
> > How should I fix this?
>
> Try running a direct merge to the problematic path on your branch.
> Something like this should do it:
>
> svn merge -c9491
> ^/trunk/Simulations/Leda5G/RegressionTests/LEDA_DLBF_32Tx_8User_EPA5_MCS17_Rank2_RosellaBF.xml
> Simulations/Leda5G/RegressionTests/LEDA_DLBF_32Tx_8User_EPA5_MCS17_Rank2_RosellaBF.xml
>
> This might only modify svn:mergeinfo which is fine. Commit that change
> and then try your reintegration merge again.
>
> > Why does the merge info contain information about branches when I have
> > always merged from the trunk?
>
> Most likely because other branches got reintegrated into trunk while you
> were working on your own branch. If your branch didn't receive such
> mergeinfo,
> and you merged changes from those other branches to your branch, 'svn
> merge'
> would try to redundantly apply changes which arrived on your branch via
> trunk.
>
>
> By the way, you didn't mention which version of Subversion you are using.
> Please make sure to run SVN 1.10 or 1.11 clients if you are not already
> doing so. Many mergeinfo problems present in earlier releases have been
> fixed over time, and you could be running into one of them. In some cases,
> such issues are rooted in history committed with older clients. The sooner
> every user of the repository upgrades, the better.
>
> Regards,
> Stefan
>
Received on 2019-01-18 14:09:45 CET

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