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Missing ranges error message when reintegrating a branch into trunk in Subversion 1.5


I'm trying to reintegrate a development branch into the trunk in my Subversion 1.5 repository. I merged all the changes from the trunk to the development branch prior to this operation. Now when I try to reintegrate the changes from the branch I get the following error message:

Command: Reintegrate merge https://dev/svn/branches/devel into C:\trunk  
Error: Reintegrate can only be used if revisions 280 through 325 were previously   
Error: merged from https://dev/svn/trunk to the reintegrate   
Error: source, but this is not the case:  
Error:   branches/devel/images/test  
Error:     Missing ranges: /trunk/images/test:280-324  
...

The message then goes on complaining about some folders in my project. But when I try to merge the changes from the trunk to the development branch again, TortoiseSVN tells me that there's nothing to merge (as I already merged all the changes before):

Command: Merging revisions 1-HEAD of https://dev/svn/trunk into C:\devel, respecting ancestry  
Completed: C:\devel  

I'm trying to follow the instructions from here: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.branchmerge.basicmerging.html, but there's nothing about solving such a problem.

Any ideas? Perhaps I should just delete the trunk and then make a copy of my branch? But I'm not really sure if it's safe.

See also

svn merge with --reintegrate complains about missing ranges but mergeinfo seems correct


Solution

  • You have to merge the revisions r280 to r324 from trunk into your branch first.

    It seems you already merged r325 into your branch, however --reintegrate needs to get all revisions up to your latest revision merged. There must be no gap. So here a little Diag:

               +----------------------> /branches/devel
              /                    /   \<--merge not working!
     --------/-------+--+---+-----+---------> trunk
             |       \  |  /      |
            280       \ V /      325
                        V
                      missing sync merges from trunk to branch
    

    I think this is your branch structure, so you need to sync all changes from trunk to your branch. You only merged r325, so just merge r280-r324 and after doing this you should be fine to use --reintegrate