Re: [PATCH] python script for issue #3961, fixing the bogus mergeinfo

[Prabhu Gnana Sundar <pr...@collab.net>]

Attaching an updated tweaked script...


Regards
Prabhu

On Friday 19 August 2011 11:45 AM, Prabhu Gnana Sundar wrote:
> Correcting the issue number as #3961...
>
>
> On Thursday 18 August 2011 08:32 PM, Prabhu Gnana Sundar wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> With reference to my earlier discussions in 
>> http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2011-07/0432.shtml
>> I am attaching a python script which would find the bogus mergeinfo 
>> and fix it.
>>
>> This script would eventually look for the location segments of the 
>> source paths against the respective revision
>> ranges present in the mergeinfo. With respect to the output of the 
>> location segments it would create a new mergeinfo
>> and store it in the ".newmergeinfo" file in the path from where the 
>> python script was run. The hash of this file would
>> be in the ".hashfile" in the same path.
>>
>> By default, the script would not fix the new changes in the working 
>> copy. Fixing the new mergeinfo to the working copy
>> can be achieved by passing the "--fix" option to the script.
>>
>> Also, this script can also authenticate against the self-signed ssl 
>> servers.
>>
>> I tested this script on our  asf subversion repo found a few bogus 
>> mergeinfo such as in the "tree-conflicts" branch:
>>
>> /subversion/branches/tree-conflicts with 872524-873154,868290-872329
>>
>> The above should be correct mergeinfo since it was not at all present 
>> in the revision range: r872330-872524
>>
>> Also, I ran this script against the 
>> https://ctf.open.collab.net/svn/repos/svnedge/trunk/console path and 
>> found a bogus mergeinfo. (it has a self-signed cert)
>>
>> Please share your thoughts...
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks and regards
>> Prabhu
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