2011/6/9 John Baldwin <j...@freebsd.org>:
> On Thursday, June 09, 2011 12:48:30 pm Attilio Rao wrote:
>> 2011/6/9 John Baldwin <j...@freebsd.org>:
>> > On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 4:46:13 am Attilio Rao wrote:
>> >> Author: attilio
>> >> Date: Tue Jun  7 08:46:13 2011
>> >> New Revision: 222813
>> >> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/222813
>> >>
>> > It would appear that svn destroyed the history on all these files.  I 
>> > suspect
>> > svn merge --reintegrate is too broken to be used safely and should probably
>> > not be used in the future until/unless svn fixes it to not suck.
>>
>> That was suggested by re@ officials, so I can't really argue :)
>
> Well, I don't think it has blown up in the past, so at the time that
> recommendation was probably fine.
>
>> What would you use instead? the "write me" option?
>
> svn diff | patch (basically what folks do for branches in p4).
>
> I'm not sure if svn stat would have shown an unusual state for these files
> after the svn merge.  If so perhaps we could just recommend that folks check
> for that and fall back to diff | patch if they notice those sorts of problems
> instead.

I did svn status on the branch and didn't actually find anything, if
it can help.

Attilio


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