On 03/24/2011 05:01 PM, Bob Archer wrote:
On 03/23/2011 08:02 PM, David Huang wrote:

On Mar 23, 2011, at 7:52 PM, Pat Farrell wrote:

On 03/23/2011 08:34 PM, Konstantin Kolinko wrote:
You  are not giving much specifics, so how can people know what
is going on
in your case?

Specifics for complete 100% reproducable problem:

do svn update for whole project
create branch from trunk
change one source file, not the one with the bogus mergeinfo,
commit it.
merge branch back to trunk

before you commit the trunk, do a svn status
You will see the bogus mergeinfo listed as a change to the
trunk.


If you're sure that the mergeinfo is bogus, why not just delete
it?
e.g., svn propdel svn:mergeinfo
fnfapp/src/java/com/fnfbook/bean/FilterListBase.java

http://www.collab.net/community/subversion/articles/merge-
info.html might be worth a read too.


My specifics are substantially similar to those of Mr. Farrell,
which
are essentially what I laid out in my original post that started
this
thread.  And yet Mr. Kolinko complains I've not given him enough
specifics.  One specific I can give is that our SVN server is still
1.5.4.

Clearly something is broken here.  If mergeinfo constantly requires
merging when there are no changes, how is that to be fixed?  The
documents that have been posted here provide way too much
information
for my use case.  I should not need to understand that much of
subversion internals to fix this problem!

Basically, what it comes down to is the fact that the merge info on the files 
does not match the merge info on the parent folders. Whenever and item in the 
path has mergeinfo and a merge is performed that merge info is updated. (this 
is supposed to stop happening as of 1.7 I believe). As long as there is merge 
info on a file that isn't in the parent folder the merge info will remain at 
the file level. Once they match the merge info in the children (files) will be 
elided and you won't see this happen again.

I assume every time you see these property changes you are committing them?


BOb




Yes, and thanks. What I take from your explanation is that removing the merge info from these files is both safe and effective in getting where I want to go (not be bothered by this anymore). Is that right?

Is there any downside?


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