Re: False conflict with interleaved merge commits

2020-02-07 Thread Daniel Dickison
On Feb 7, 2020, at 02:44, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 03:37:10PM -0500, Daniel Dickison wrote: >> Strangely, the conflict goes away if you flip the order of steps 2 and 3, >> or commit the merge from step 4 first. > > I would say it is working as

False conflict with interleaved merge commits

2020-02-06 Thread Daniel Dickison
We think we’ve found a bug in Subversion’s conflict detection during merge operations that results in a false conflict. It occurs after two ‘merge’ commands are committed in reverse order between two branches, and then a subsequent merge is attempted. I’ve attached a repro script that illustrate