On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 5:24 AM, Prabhu Gnana Sundar <prabh...@collab.net> wrote: > On Thursday 14 July 2011 09:18 PM, Paul Burba wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Prabhu Gnana Sundar >> <prabh...@collab.net> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I am in the process of writing a script which would check for the >>> mergeinfo >>> of a path and see if the path is present through all the revisions >>> mentioned >>> in the mergeinfo property. If the path was not found for any revision >>> range >>> then the script would suggest(as of now) a better way to propget the >>> mergeinfo property or even propset the correct mergeinfo property (not >>> yet >>> decided on this though). >>> >>> In the process of testing the script against our "trunk" source I could >>> see >>> some bogus mergeinfo properties when there is a break in the history. >>> >>> Here is an example: >>> >>> The mergeinfo for >>> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/branches/tree-conflicts is >>> 868291-873154 >>> but if I do location_segments for this range of revision for the above >>> path, >>> I get >>> r868291 - r872329: subversion/branches/tree-conflicts >>> r872330 - r872524: null >>> r872525 - r873154: subversion/branches/tree-conflicts >>> >>> After looking at log -v, it was clear that the >>> "subversion/branches/tree-conflicts" was deleted and copied (i.e >>> replaced). >>> Logically the branch "tree-conflicts" was not present at all at the >>> revision >>> range r872330-872524. >>> This brings a breakage of history. But the mergeinfo is not clear enough >>> to >>> show this change. >>> >>> I tested the same case with the 1.6.12, 1.6.17 and the trunk builds. The >>> (possible) bug is seen in all the three cases. >>> >>> I have not yet filed any bug so far. Please share your thoughts. >> >> Hi Prabhu, >> >> There are a few known issues where mergeinfo can be created which >> describes non-existent merge sources: >> >> One still open: >> >> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3867 >> >> Two which have been fixed: >> >> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3432 >> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3669 >> >> I might be forgetting a couple others, but those are the ones that come to >> mind. >> >> You might want to check if one of those three is the culprit here. > > Thanks Paul, this case is different from all the above three cases though it > looked > quite similar to the case, > http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3669 > > Here there seems to be no sign of inheritance of mergeinfo as is the case in > "3669" and no sign of > copyfrom as is the case in "3432".
Hi Prabhu, I added issue #3961 to track this and added a test in r1147299. Paul > > > Regards, > Prabhu > >
