[SVN-3062] svnmerge doesn't warn when permission is denied for a path

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 1.4.x
• Fix Version/s: nonblocking
• Component/s: contrib/svnmerge.py
• Assignee: Blair Zajac
• Reporter: Subversion Importer
• Created: 31/Dec/07 07:47
• Updated: 11/Jan/22 18:32
• Resolved: 11/Jan/22 18:32

Description

svnmerge doesn't warn/throw-error when we try to merge a branch (source) for
which the user has no read permission. In my case, a subdirectory of the
"branch" being merged didn't have read permission and svnmerge didn't complain
anything. In fact, svnmerge silently ignored that "subdirectory" and merged the
rest. It looked like the merge was successful.

I feel that svnmerge should throw an error in this case and stop proceeding
further (It should be considered FATAL). Currently the only way to find out that
this has happened is to search the svnmerge-commit-message.txt for "no author"
pattern.

eg.
........
  r4455 | (no author) | (no date) | 1 line
........


Version Information:

svnmerge r21994
  modified: 2006-10-17 06:52:10 +0000 (Tue, 17 Oct 2006)

Copyright (C) 2004,2005 Awarix Inc.
Copyright (C) 2005, Giovanni Bajo
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svn, version 1.4.3 (r23084)
   compiled Oct 15 2007, 08:39:54

Copyright (C) 2000-2006 CollabNet.

Original issue reported by santhoshmani