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Stefan Sperling commented on SVN-4659:
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The problem here is that 'svn patch' does not support svn:mergeinfo at all.
'svn diff' does not print mergeinfo changes in a unidiff-like style. It
pretty-prints them, and 'svn patch' does not yet parse this pretty-printed
representation.
We already have an issue for this problem: SVN-3747
Would you be OK with me flagging the issue you filed as a duplicate of 3747?
> svn patch doesn't restore properties at the working path root
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>
> Key: SVN-4659
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-4659
> Project: Subversion
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: cmdline client
> Affects Versions: 1.9.4
> Environment: Reproduced on FreeBSD 11.0 but doubt it is OS specific
> Reporter: John Baldwin
> Priority: Minor
>
> To reproduce:
> {quote}
> cd /path/to/some/branch
> svn merge -c NNN ^/trunk
> svn diff > foo.patch
> svn revert -R .
> svn apply foo.patch
> {quote}
> This will apply all of the file changes in the merged change, but it will not
> apply the mergeinfo property change on the current working directory.
> Instead it outputs the error message:
> {quote}
> Skipped missing target: '.'
> {quote}
> However, the '.' directory in this case does exist. At the moment I am
> working on merging a feature to an older branch from a trunk that spans
> multiple commits from trunk some of which have conflicts to resolve during
> the merges. I am using 'svn diff' to checkpoint progress after resolving
> conflicts so that I can 'svn revert' and restart if I find that the easiest
> way to resolve a conflict is to add an additional change to my queue of
> changes to merge. Having 'svn patch' do a full application would make this
> simpler. As it is I have to follow my 'svn patch' with a manual 'svn merge
> --record-only -c NNN,MMM,XXX' to restore the mergeinfo.
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