On Sep 17, 2010, at 12:38 PM, Bob Archer wrote: > It is updating/writing merge info on those child nodes. There must have been > a merge that was done at a level lower than the root folder of your project > which put merge info on those files but not on the parent root folder.
A more concrete example: hexley-wl:~ khym$ svn co https://my.repo/svn/branches/dave-calendar72 [ ... ] hexley-wl:~ khym$ cd dave-calendar72 hexley-wl:dave-calendar72 khym$ svn merge --accept postpone https://my.repo/svn/branches/7...@28161 https://my.repo/svn/branches/dave-calendar71 --- Merging differences between repository URLs into '.': [ ... ] U LoadDB/LoadDB.cpp [ ... ] C Reports/Invoice.rpt [ ... ] Summary of conflicts: Text conflicts: 491 Tree conflicts: 5 # So, a .cpp was supposedly updated, and an .rpt was supposedly conflicted hexley-wl:dave-calendar72 khym$ svn proplist https://my.repo/svn/branches/7.1/LoadDB/loaddb....@28161 https://my.repo/svn/branches/dave-calendar71/LoadDB/LoadDB.cpp LoadDB/LoadDB.cpp Properties on 'https://my.repo/svn/branches/7.1/LoadDB/LoadDB.cpp': svn:keywords Properties on 'https://my.repo/svn/branches/dave-calendar71/LoadDB/LoadDB.cpp': svn:keywords Properties on 'LoadDB/LoadDB.cpp': svn:keywords # No mergeinfo on that file, in any of the places that are involved in the merge. Doing the same thing for Invoice.rpt shows that the only property is svn:mime-type. hexley-wl:dave-calendar72 khym$ svn diff https://my.repo/svn/branches/7.1/LoadDB/loaddb....@28161 https://my.repo/svn/branches/dave-calendar71/LoadDB/LoadDB.cpp hexley-wl:dave-calendar72 khym$ svn diff https://my.repo/svn/branches/7.1/Reports/invoice....@28161 https://my.repo/svn/branches/dave-calendar71/Reports/Invoice.rpt # And svn diff shows that there are neither any text differences or property differences. hexley-wl:dave-calendar72 khym$ svn stat LoadDB/LoadDB.cpp Reports/Invoice.rpt C Reports/Invoice.rpt # Finally, svn stat shows that there are no modifications to my WC's LoadDB.cpp, despite the merge supposedly updating it. However, Invoice.rpt really is conflicted.