svn "must be ancestrally related to" issue

2013-10-21 Thread Z W
Hi All We are using 1.6 SVN. We have been syncing trunk to branch A and they are both synced up and ready for merge. We are trying to svn merge branch A to our trunk. But the branch was not created right in that it has a missing directory. eg. branch A has src directory src Trunk has src and in

svn mergeinfo and svn merge - questions

2013-10-17 Thread Z W
> > Hi All > > We are using 1.6 SVN. > We like to svn merge from our branch A to trunk. > We have been diligent in svn merge from trunk to A. > These svn merges from trunk to branch A also include --record-only merges > too, in addition to regular merges. > Development on branch A has stopped. > No

svn merges with reintegrate confusion

2013-10-17 Thread Z W
Hi All We are using 1.6 SVN. We like to svn merge from our branch A to trunk. We have been diligent in svn merge from trunk to A. These svn merges from trunk to branch A also include --record-only merges too, in addition to regular merges. Development on branch A has stopped. Now we like to merge

reapply svn merge without undo - quick question

2013-08-31 Thread Z W
Hi All We use svn 1.6 We have a list of revision numbers listed in mergeinfo property. Over the months, different folks perform svn merge such that there's a svn commit failing but mergeinfo is still updated with that revision number on mergeinfo property? We don't know which revision number first

merge issue - files not updated because of svn commits fail

2013-08-31 Thread Z W
Hi All We are using svn 1.6 - we tried merging from Trunk to a feature branch using svn merge (automatically). We just found out that some files are not updated with the merges but mergeinfo has already indicated and ci with the messages that those files are merged. We like to perform svn merge aga

reissuing svn merge after a "successful" merge possible ?

2013-08-27 Thread Z W
Hi All We are using svn 1.6 - we tried merging from Trunk to a feature branch using svn merge (automatically). We just found out that some files are not updated with the merges but mergeinfo has already indicated and ci with the messages that those files are merged We like to perform svn merge agai

svn merge --reintegrate - quick question

2013-08-15 Thread Z W
Hi All We have a situation where a few folks dont use --reintegrate option when performing svn merge, while others do. What's 1- the consequence of not using --reintegrate option; can the feature branch continue to svn merge to trunk the 2nd time and thereafter ? 2- the impact on those feature b

svn checkout - quick question

2013-08-12 Thread Z W
Hi All 1- Can one simply checkout a few folders in a directory as opposed to check out everything under a directory ? We have a folder what we don't want to check out but want to co all other directories. 2- Once we checkout these directories (except one), we need to svn merge from another branch

svn merge and svn ignore

2013-08-04 Thread Z W
Hi All Q: During SVN merge, does it read svn ignore list to ignore files, directories to not merge them to a working copy directory from a repository ? Thank you. Sincerely

How to svn ignore multiple directories and files properly ?

2013-08-04 Thread Z W
Hi All We read folks posted online and it appears to show conflicting statements on how to svn ignore multiple directories and files using svn propedit. Suppose we have the following working copy directory structure. /projectRoot (this working copy directory contains subdirectories build and src

merging and ignoring certain directories

2013-08-03 Thread Z W
Hi All We have a branch A We svn copy A to feature branch Y Time elapsed We svn merge A to Y continuously Time elapsed We svn copy A to branch B (and decided B would be the "trunk") Time elapsed We have been merging B to Y continuously We have been checking in jars to branch Y when making builds o

Re: When to merge or copy - quick question

2013-07-19 Thread Z W
still don't see clearly its purpose. Thanks Uli. Thanks On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:53 AM, Ulrich Eckhardt < ulrich.eckha...@dominolaser.com> wrote: > Am 12.07.2013 01:43, schrieb Z W: > > We have a trunk X and a feature branch Y (branched from X) >> > > Your wor

When to merge or copy - quick question

2013-07-11 Thread Z W
Hi All We have a trunk X and a feature branch Y (branched from X) We have another branch Z (totally new code) and we need to copy branch Z to inside branch Y When we need to merge from branch Y to X, will it work ? When do we decide to svn copy or svn merge for branch Z ? Thank

Re: trunk naming best practice question

2013-05-09 Thread Z W
elopment at code-freeze before creating a release branch. Thanks On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Zé wrote: > On 05/07/2013 04:50 AM, Z W wrote: > >> >> What's the best practice in use with SVN ? >> > > Maybe this can give you some ideas on how to organize you

Re: How to use --record-only to unblock

2013-05-09 Thread Z W
Hi Johan Thanks for responding. If we get a chance we'll let you know. We're tight with time now. Thanks On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 5:25 AM, Johan Corveleyn wrote: > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Z W wrote: > > Hi All > > > > We plan to merge from the trunk to

Re: How to remove revision number in mergeinfo eligible list

2013-05-08 Thread Z W
folder https://some.url.com/svn/root/Trunk ? We use SVN 1.6 Sincerely On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Andrew Reedick wrote: > > From: Z W [mailto:mpc8...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 4:09 PM > > To: Andrew Reedick > > Cc: users@subversion.apache.org > &

Re: How to remove revision number in mergeinfo eligible list

2013-05-08 Thread Z W
May 8, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Andrew Reedick wrote: > > From: Z W [mailto:mpc8...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 3:05 PM > > To: users@subversion.apache.org > > Subject: How to remove revision number in mergeinfo eligible list > > > > Hi All > >

How to remove revision number in mergeinfo eligible list

2013-05-08 Thread Z W
Hi All We use SVN 1.6 We have a revision number which refuses to move to the merged list after applying a merge. [root@host branchWC]# svn mergeinfo --show-revs eligible https://some.url.com/svn/root/trunk r6554 [root@host branchWC]# svn merge -c 6554 --record-only https://some.url.com/svn/root

How to use --record-only to unblock

2013-05-08 Thread Z W
Hi All We plan to merge from the trunk to a feature branch using --record-only for a few revisions numbers. Is there a way to unblock a revision number after first using --record-only ? Thanks Sincerely

Re: mergeinfo between svn copied branches and merges

2013-05-08 Thread Z W
Hi Andrew thanks for responding. On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Andrew Reedick wrote: > > > From: Z W [mailto:mpc8...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 11:53 AM > > To: users@subversion.apache.org > > Subject: mergeinfo between svn copied branches and mer

mergeinfo between svn copied branches and merges

2013-05-07 Thread Z W
Hi All we have branchA we svn copy branchA to produce branchB branches A and B continues development and checkins branchA is merged to branch B continuously branchA finishes, tagged we then svn copy branchA to produce branchC we like to continue branchC merging to branchB we hear u clearly

Renaming trunk and then reintegrating from branch to new trunk name

2013-05-07 Thread Z W
Hi All Suppose trunk has been merging to branch. would renaming a trunk (trunk name change) causes an automatic change in the svn:mergeinfo of a branch so that merged mergeinfo list and eligible merge info list remains intact (from the branch perspective) ? Then when branch needs to reintegrate t

Re: trunk naming best practice question

2013-05-06 Thread Z W
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trunk naming best practice question

2013-05-06 Thread Z W
Hi All For the trunk, what's the common practice to name a version of the trunk? We have a trunk and it's not ready for branching. We also feel that we need a more specific name for the trunk than what we have now called version=trunk. However, we can't be specific since we don't know what the bra

mergeinfo deleted and how to recover ?

2013-05-06 Thread Z W
Hi All We have been merging from trunk A to branch B; recently another branch C is created out of trunk A; trunk A is frozen and C has become the new trunk for us; We mistakenly co the trunk C and performed svn propdel svn:mergeinfo -R svn revert . svn commit -m "should not have done it" Now whe

Merging from new Trunk question

2013-05-06 Thread Z W
Hi All We have been merging from trunk A to branch B; recently another branch C is created out of trunk A; trunk A is frozen and C has become the new trunk for us; 1- will the mergeinfo in Trunk A be copied over to Trunk C so that we can continue merging from Trunk C to branch B 2- would be there

svn:ignore and svn merge - quick questions

2013-04-27 Thread Z W
Hi All We like to ignore a set of jar files under our working copy root directory: working copy root dir: /scratch/testMerge working copy jars dir: /scratch/testMerge/build/jars We tried to perform merging from a trunk to our working copy branch and it failed because one of the jar ins

Re: merge using same revision number - quick question

2013-04-26 Thread Z W
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Branko Čibej wrote: > On 24.04.2013 23:06, Z W wrote: > > > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Mark Phippard > <mailto:markp...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Bo

Re: merge using same revision number - quick question

2013-04-24 Thread Z W
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Mark Phippard wrote: > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Bob Archer wrote: > > Please check the poperties on one of the files. Tell me what the > mergeinfo: is prior to your merge > > and after your merge. Up to this point we were talking about > generalities, but

Re: merge using same revision number - quick question

2013-04-24 Thread Z W
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Bob Archer wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Z W [mailto:mpc8...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 4:26 PM > > To: Bob Archer > > Cc: Johan Corveleyn; users@subversion.apache.org > > Subject: Re: merg

Re: merge using same revision number - quick question

2013-04-24 Thread Z W
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Mark Phippard wrote: > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Z W wrote: > > > Hi Bob, we're still seeing the problem of unwanted touches of files and > > directories on new unmerged rev numbers, even after we reapply all merges > > for a

Re: merge using same revision number - quick question

2013-04-24 Thread Z W
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Bob Archer wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Bob Archer wrote: > > > Hi Johan, Bob and all > > > > > > We took your suggestion and it still fails in that > > > 1- when we try to merge again at the root level > > > (goals: > > > a- to move subtree merge

Re: merge using same revision number - quick question

2013-04-24 Thread Z W
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Bob Archer wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Bob Archer wrote: > > > Hi Johan, Bob and all > > > > > > We took your suggestion and it still fails in that > > > 1- when we try to merge again at the root level > > > (goals: > > > a- to move subtree merge

Re: merge using same revision number - quick question

2013-04-24 Thread Z W
Hi Bob Thanks for your response. What does elided mean ? We do see the revision numbers are moved from eligible to merged in svn mergeinfo after a "svn merge" and "svn commit" How do we stop top posting and adhere to the rules ? We're new. Thank you Sincerely On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 9:32 AM, B

Re: merge using same revision number - quick question

2013-04-24 Thread Z W
Hi Johan, Bob and all We took your suggestion and it still fails in that 1- when we try to merge again at the root level (goals: a- to move subtree merge done previously to the working copy root level so that the past merge can be traced at the root level using "svn mergeinfo -show-revs merged) s

svn merge --record-only, svn merges - how to use - quick question

2013-04-21 Thread Z W
Hi All How does one use --record-only option with svn merge ? Is it used when a revision number is found in svn mergeinfo eligible list and returns no changes ? ie eg r234455 is on the eligible list but when applied with svn merge, there's no change. Is that when we use --record-only option after

svn merge and svnmerge - quick question.

2013-04-21 Thread Z W
Hi All We have 1.6 SVN. Can svnmerge.py and svn merge be used on the same working copy directory for merging from trunk to branch ? Thanks

Re: merge using same revision number - quick question

2013-04-19 Thread Z W
Hi Bob Thanks for responding. I tried it and it seems to merge ok. We're usng SVN 1.6 We tried using svn mergeinfo to help us with finding relevant revisions to merge from a trunk to a branch. But when we query for merged, (even for the one above), svn mergeinfo --shows-revs merged https://test.c

merge using same revision number - quick question

2013-04-17 Thread Z W
Hi All We have a revision that contains a few changed files on the trunk: r345 /usr/ext/a.java /usr/ext/b.java We like to merge this a branch working copy. Can we perform multiple merge svn with the same revision number ? We have a reason to do that; We know it doesnt make sense in this simple ex

SVN status code and server/client responses - quick questions

2013-03-26 Thread Z W
Hi All We're new to SVN. We think we got the basics but like to know more. We having been using SVN updates with Hudson and it uses the SVNkit as a SVN client. We notice that sometimes zip file is NOT updated from the SVN server. On another occasion, we're not sure why when someone checks in the

automatic merge - quick question

2013-03-19 Thread Z W
Hi All We like to perform frequent automatic svn merges between our trunk and our branches but we don't have much experience with svn merging. We read that Svnmerge.py could help but we weren't sure as we read elsewhere that svn 1.6 does merges similar to Svnmerge.py, and so Svnmerge.py should no

svn copy and history - quick question

2013-02-14 Thread Z W
Hi All We are SVN newbies here. We plan to do an svn copy (of a branch to another trunk). Does "svn copy" command copies all the history of the file and folder revisoins too ? Thanks

lock tree or branch - quick question

2013-02-12 Thread Z W
Hi All We like to stop commits to a certain tree or branch. Is there a way to do that on SVN ? Is this an svn admin command ? Thanks

svn info and svnlook - quick questions

2013-01-19 Thread Z W
Hi All We're new to subversion. We like to make sure we get the latest svn revision number from the svn repository on the remote server. We are confused as to which command to use to find our latest revision number. Questions 1- Which is correct - svn info url or svnlook youngest 2- We thought s

Subversion Rev number - quick question

2012-12-31 Thread Z W
Hi All We are new to SVN. We are unsure where to configure in SVN, if needed, while using it with Jenkins/Hudson CI tool. We have a big chained job that runs for about an hour. Chained job meaning several jobs combined using downstream connections of jobs. We have the following problem, which is

SVN server and client incompatibility - quick question

2012-12-02 Thread Z W
Hi We are new to SVN. We found that our Jenkins CI is configured to use Subversion Workspace Version 1.6 (svn:externals to file) We also found that the SVN server is using SVN version Subversion 1.6.16 When running our build, we get the following errors: Svn : Sending changes from your working c

SVN server and client incompatibility - quick question

2012-12-02 Thread Z W
Hi We are new to SVN. We found that our Jenkins CI is configured to use Subversion Workspace Version 1.6 (svn:externals to file) We also found that the SVN server is using SVN version Subversion 1.6.16 When running our build, we get the following errors: *Svn : Sending changes from your working