Hi,
I'm having trouble resolving a tree conflict.
I'm working on a feature branch, and I regularly merge from trunk to the
branch. In my latest merge, I got a tree conflict because a directory
("playback") has been added both to trunk and to my branch, with
different contents. I want to get rid of my version and use the one
from trunk.
This should be trivial, but it isn't:
$ svn resolve --accept theirs-full playback
svn: warning: Tree conflicts can only be resolved to 'working' state;
'playback' not resolved
So I thought I'd delete the directory and use "svn cp" to copy the
branch version into my working copy. The delete worked:
$ svn st --depth=empty playback
D C playback
> local add, incoming add upon merge
And I can easily get the URL I need to copy from:
$ svn info playback
URL: http://svnserver/repos/branches/feature/wherever/playback
...
Tree conflict: local add, incoming add upon merge
Source left: (dir)
http://svnserver/repos/trunk/wherever/playback@2373
Source right: (dir)
http://svnserver/repos/trunk/wherever/playback@3515
But the copy doesn't work:
$ svn cp http://svnserver/repos/trunk/wherever/playback@3515 .
svn: Path 'playback' already exists
(I also tried "svn cp
http://svnserver/repos/trunk/wherever/playback@3515 playback", but that
put it in the wrong place (playback/playback/ rather than just
playback/) and seemed to get my working copy in a bugged state,
requiring non-SVN "rm" and "svn cleanup" to get it working again).
I guess I could split the commit into two - if I did a first commit for
the rest of the merge and to delete the "playback" directory, I'd
probably be able to use "svn cp" and do a second commit to re-add it
with the right contents. This seems like a very ugly hack.
Any ideas how to resolve this properly?
Kind regards,
Jon
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