[Svnmerge] Bugs when merging revisions that modify and deletefiles

[Archie Cobbs]

On 1/10/07, Giovanni Bajo <rasky at develer.com> wrote:
> On 10/01/2007 22.15, Archie Cobbs wrote:
>
> > For example, suppose a file is changed in rev X and then renamed
> > (i.e., copied and deleted) in rev Y.
> >
> > Then "svn merge --force" of X and Y will cause the changes in revision
> > X to be lost, no?
>
> Absolutely not!

You're right... I had it backwards in my head.

The case I had in mind that doesn't work is when you merge Y but NOT
X. Then the file will get "renamed" but the newly named version will
have the changes of revision X in it, even though you never merged
revision X into your branch.

But that problem is not related to adding "--force" to "svn merge".

Thanks for your analysis of the code. It looks now that it would be
safe and the right thing to do to add "--force". +1 from me.

-Archie

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