[cvsnt] Merge doesn't remove file

Flávio Etrusco flavio.etrusco at gmail.com
Fri Mar 14 12:47:25 GMT 2008


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On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Gerhard Fiedler
<lists at connectionbrazil.com> wrote:
> Flávio Etrusco wrote:
>
>
>  > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Gerhard Fiedler
>  > <lists at connectionbrazil.com> wrote:
>  >> I have a file that has been removed on a branch, but when I merge that
>  >> branch into HEAD, the file on HEAD doesn't get removed. Instead, I get
>  >> a message that says "cvs server: file Base.hpp has been modified, but
>  >> has been removed in revision bGeDev". (See the update command below.)
>  >>
>  >> The file is not modified on HEAD (see stat below). The only
>  >> modifications are a few revisions on the branch after the last merge
>  >> before the file got removed on the branch. But the last revision on the
>  >> branch is dead (see log below). Yet, after the merge, the file in HEAD
>  >> is untouched.
>  >>
>  >> Can anybody explain why it doesn't merge the remove from the branch to
>  >> HEAD?
>  >
>  > I guess the message refers to the fact that there were
>  > commits/modifications on head after the branchpoint/last mergepoint?
>
>  That would be understandable, but there aren't any modifications to the
>  file on HEAD after the last merge point. (See my response to Tony for
>  details.)
>

Oops. sorry. I guess both Tony and me didn't notice the revision 1.5
is already the _result_ of the merge operation, since it shows a
mergepoint... Is that correct?



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