It would be incredibly helpful if svn printed out the path it didn't like. Beverly
-----Original Message----- From: Bob Archer [mailto:bob.arc...@amsi.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 3:45 PM To: Brown, Beverly; users@subversion.apache.org Subject: RE: "Unreadable path encountered" running svn merge --reintegrate > I am trying to use the svn merge tracking in the SVN 1.6.11 client (server > is running 1.6.4). > > I am getting this error when I try to reintegrate back into my trunk: > svn: Unreadable path encountered; access denied > You're not using a sparse checkout of your trunk are you? Are there paths that you don't have access to in your repository? BOb > I can do any other type of merge with no problem, just the -reintegrate is > giving me this problem. > > Here is the sequence of commands I ran. My working copy was originally > checked out from ^/project1/trunk. > > cd working_copy > svn copy ^/project1/trunk ^/project1/branches/bugfix > svn switch ^/project1/branches/bugfix > > <edit some files> > > svn commit -m "message" > svn merge ^/project1/trunk > <note: no files needed merging - no changes had been done on the trunk > since the copy> > > svn switch ^/project1/trunk > svn merge -reintegrate ^/project1/branches/bugfix . > > > Any idea what's causing this problem with -reintegrate? > > Beverly Brown
