Extraneous mergeinfo properties set when using selective merge

[Joe Bell <jo...@prodeasystems.com>]

Hi,

 

I believe this has been discussed before, but I couldn't find a good
answer as to whether this is "normal". 

 

The scenario:  individuals are working on a release support branch and
selectively merging fixes from the trunk into the support branch.
Typically I advise folks to submit to the support branch first and then
merge back into the trunk, but there are occasions where the trunk gets
the bugfix first.  People are running the following command in the
support branch (Project/branches/rel1-support):

 

svn merge -cREV https://hostname/svn/Project/trunk .

 

and getting not only the files intended (the ones that were modified in
the revision REV), but also mergeinfo property changes on completely
unrelated files.  A final svn status looks like this:

 

12345678

 

 M     .

M      fileExpected

 M     fileUnexpected

 M     fileUnexpected

 M     fileUnexpected

 

This is causing a lot of confusion with our developers, and moreover, we
have hooks with CodeCollaborator that require all of the files being
committed be in a code review - this configuration is requiring
individuals to add all of these files that have only property changes to
the reviews, generating excessive noise.

 

My question is, obviously, what is going on here?  Why is mergeinfo
being modified on files that have nothing to do with the changeset that
I'm actually merging?  

 

One other note, I see this with a 1.5.4 client/1.5.0 server
configuration - I do not see this with a 1.5.0 client/1.5.0 server
configuration.

 

Thanks,

Joe

 

Joseph Bell

joe.bell@prodeasystems.com

 




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RE: Extraneous mergeinfo properties set when using selective merge

[we...@tigris.org]

I'm noticing the same issue and it is becoming quite frustrating.

I'm using 1.6.0 client (TortoiseSVN) and the server is 1.5.5 (r34862). 

Are there any explanations for why this is happening or what is being done to resolve it?

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