strange merge conflict

[Jan Hendrik <li...@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

this is our first branching in years, so bear with me when I haven't 
got the concept from reading the book.

Server is SVN 1.5.1 on Win2K, client SVN 1.4.6 on WinXP (update 
postponed as currently a reboot is not wished [TortoiseSVN being 
the regular client]).  Actually it was by way of TSVN we 
encountered the following:

-- branched the whole tree from trunk in rev. 2663

-- file xrates.py was partly rewritten and committed on trunk in rev. 
2676

-- the file was not touched on the branch yet, but the current 
version is needed for future work and was attempted to be merged 
from trunk (dry-run).  TSVN reported a conflict.  The diff reveals 
none.

Doing things from commandline now the following strange things 
revealed:

$svn st -v xrates.py
			2676     2576 jhn          xrates.py


$svn merge -r 2675:2676 --dry-run http://hulot.svnserver.com/svn/repos1/trunk/internet
C    xrates.py


$svn merge -r 2675:2676 --dry-run http://hulot.svnserver.com/svn/repos1/trunk/internet/xrates.py
C    xrates.py


$svn merge -r 2674:2676 --dry-run http://hulot.svnserver.com/svn/repos1/trunk/internet
C    xrates.py
U    Cigarbox-Design\index.php
U    Cigarbox-Design\gallery\index.php
U    Cigarbox-Design\gallery\index_d.php
U    Cigarbox-Design\index_d.php


$svn merge -r 2674:HEAD --dry-run http://hulot.svnserver.com/svn/repos1/trunk/internet
C    xrates.py
U    Cigarbox-Design\index.php
U    Cigarbox-Design\gallery\index.php
U    Cigarbox-Design\gallery\index_d.php
U    Cigarbox-Design\index_d.php


$svn merge -r 2663:HEAD --dry-run http://hulot.svnserver.com/svn/repos1/trunk/internet
[...]
U    Domains\hogarth\scroll_e.js
U    xrates.py
U    Marine\robots.txt
[...]


$svn merge -r 2676 --dry-run xrates.py
U    xrates.py


In short, if the whole range from rev. 2663 (branching off) to HEAD 
is merged, xrates.py is correctly identified as Updated.  Likewise 
when addressed specifically at rev. 2676 when it was modified on 
trunk.

Yet when only rev. 2676 is addressed or just a range around 
xrates.py - and only this file - is identified as Conflicted.

What is going on here?  BTW branching was done when the server 
already was updated to 1.5.1. As it is just this one single file I am 
inclined to give the conflict a chance, but would prefer some better 
knowledge beforehand.

TIA

Jan Hendrik
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