[Svnmerge] Conflict on svnmerge-blocked property

[Raman Gupta]

Daniel Rall wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Raman Gupta wrote:
> 
>> dustin at zmanda.com wrote:
>>> On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 10:48:04AM -0400, Raman Gupta wrote:
>>>> I can confirm the problem. This is another case of svnmerge.py not
>>>> supporting transitive (or graph-based) merges properly.
>>> I could probably write a test case for this, if someone else thinks they
>>> could track down the problem..
>> A test case would really help -- the fix should actually be pretty
>> simple -- just ignore any merged changes to any of the svnmerge
>> integrated properties, and set them explicitly at the end of the merge.
>>
>> This would of course prevent merge information from other "distant"
>> branches being merged into the current branch implicitly (the
>> "illusion" of graph-based merging that svnmerge.py currently
>> provides). Personally I consider that a feature -- since I didn't
>> explicitly "init" merging with that distant branch, I don't want
>> unrelated merge information from it cluttering up my target branch.
> 
> TestCase_TestRepo.testMergeWithPotentialPropertyConflict (currently
> XFAIL) in svnmerge_test.py is related to transitive merges.

That test case will pass with the patch I submitted a few months ago,
although there was debate about transitive information being lost.

Cheers,
Raman