[Svnmerge] Problem with merges from the root of a repository

[Jeppe_Oland at playstation.sony.com]

On 11/18/2010 7:02 PM, Jeppe_Oland at playstation.sony.com wrote:
> I have a problem with svnmerge giving conflicts when merging from one
> repo to another.
>
> I have bidirectional merge links set up between the 2 repositories so
> that we can merge changes from a private development branch into the
> trunk - and from the trunk into the private branch if anybody makes
> changes there.
>
> The problem started happening after a change was made in the trunk.
> This change was merged to the private branch without problems.
> Now, when merging from the private branch to the trunk, the revision
> number of the trunk->private merge shows up, and of course causes
> conflicts.
>
>  From digging a bit, it looks like the problem is caused by the private
> repository having all its files at the root of the repository (and not
> under trunk or something similar).
> This causes "analyze_revs" to not correctly find the reflected revs.
>
> I have attached a diff that fixes it for my case - but I'm not sure if
> that is the right way to fix it, or if it would cause any side effects.

I guess the attachment was stripped out ... here it is inline instead.

--- svnmerge_orig.py      2010-11-18 16:48:57.000000000 -0800
+++ svnmerge.py   2010-11-18 16:49:04.000000000 -0800
@@ -360,6 +360,8 @@
      locobjs = {}

      def __init__(self, repo_relative_path, uuid=None, url=None, 
external_form=None):
+        if repo_relative_path == "":
+            repo_relative_path = "/"
          self.repo_relative_path = repo_relative_path
          self.uuid = uuid
          self.url = url