[SVN-4737] Merge on subdirectory does not work

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Affects Version/s: 1.9.x

Environment

Commandline client on any operating system has this issue.

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Chris
• Created: 16/Apr/18 18:39
• Updated: 22/Apr/18 23:19
• Resolved: 22/Apr/18 23:19

Description

Attached reproduction script shows the issue in detail.

A short description of the issue:

• Doing "svn merge -c -1000 foo/bar" does not revert changes in the foo/bar subdirectory
• Doing "cd foo bar" before doing "svn merge -c -1000 ." reverts the changes

Both of the above should be equivalent and the former seems to be a bug. In the below thread, it was also shown that diff can have hte same behavior.

Discussion about this bug was done here: https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-users/201804.mbox/%3C20180415141034.GA31629%40ted.stsp.name%3E