Re: weird merge

2010-03-30 Thread Xavier Noria
Can I tell to svn that it totally forget revisions < 3000 ? Those are very old and we could just get rid of them it there was a chance that it solved the issue, it is a pity we need to deal with explicit revisions all the time, reflective merges... I don't know, perhaps around r2909 people did som

Re: weird merge

2010-03-30 Thread Xavier Noria
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Bob Archer wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Tyler Roscoe wrote: >> >> > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 03:17:54PM +0100, Xavier Noria wrote: >> >> Even if I try to fix it by hand with >> >> >> >>  

Re: weird merge

2010-03-30 Thread Xavier Noria
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Tyler Roscoe wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 03:17:54PM +0100, Xavier Noria wrote: >> Even if I try to fix it by hand with >> >>     svn merge -r2:2909 ^/trunk --record-only >> >> a subsequent merge still tries to get 2 thr

Re: weird merge

2010-03-26 Thread Xavier Noria
Even if I try to fix it by hand with svn merge -r2:2909 ^/trunk --record-only a subsequent merge still tries to get 2 through 2909. Moreover svn propget svn:mergeinfo . returns nothing. Another fact is that svn log in the branch contains everything down to r1. Is that normal? Could it

Re: weird merge

2010-03-25 Thread Xavier Noria
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Tyler Roscoe wrote: > You should look at your branch's ancestry to make sure those revisions > are not needed. If they're not, you can use a --record-only merge to > make the branch think it has those revisions. Subsequent merges from > trunk should then skip over

weird merge

2010-03-25 Thread Xavier Noria
I am using 1.6 and was told that nowadays explicit revision numbers are not needed for branching merging in the most common use case at least. That is, after you create branch b from trunk, you work on b, occasionally you sync with trunk this way: cd b svn merge ^/trunk . and when you ar