On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 04:08:57PM +0100, Christoph Bartoschek wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to merge all changes in a directory from repository A to a > directory in repository B. > > My idea was to do a loop over all iterations and merge them to dirB: > > svn merge -c rev file:///path/to/rep/A/dirA dirB > > My problem is that for the revision where dirA is created in repositoryA > nothing is done.
> You see that the first command does nothing although dirA and lots of subdirs > were created in revision 1. The addition of dirA is a change on the *parent* of dirA. So merge the parent folder into the target's parent folder first, preferrably using a two-URL merge (Last time I tried this, with TortoiseSVN, it would only work with a two-URL merge. I'm not sure if the CLI client has the same requirement. But since both use the same libraries that is not unlikely): svn merge file:///path/to/rep/A/@rev-1 file:///path/to/rep/A/@rev parent-dir This will add dirA into parent-dir. Commit this. Next, you could experiment with renaming dirA to dirB. But if you ever merge at a higher level in the tree, so that changes made upstream in dirA appear as part of the diff, you will get tree conflicts since dirA won't be found at your end. So not renaming it might save you some headaches later. I'd recommend keeping the name. Now, the following revs can apply cleanly. There is no need to loop over the revs, you can apply the entire range at once, giving you single commit that contains all the changes made upstream. svn merge file:///path/to/rep/A/dirA@rev+1 file:///path/to/rep/A/dirA@HEAD dirA or if you decided to rename: svn merge file:///path/to/rep/A/dirA@rev+1 file:///path/to/rep/A/dirA@HEAD dirB If you have a real need to cherry-pick individual changes merged from the foreign repository to branches in your own repository, you will need to loop over all the revs, of course, and merge them individually. Note that there is no merge tracking with foreign repos merges, so make sure to note which revisions have already been merged from the foreign repository (e.g. in the log message).
