Index: test/java/org/apache/ivy/core/resolve/ResolveTest.java
===================================================================
--- test/java/org/apache/ivy/core/resolve/ResolveTest.java	(revision 1132834)
+++ test/java/org/apache/ivy/core/resolve/ResolveTest.java	(working copy)
@@ -5232,6 +5232,59 @@
         ivy.deliver(pubrev, deliveryPattern, dopts);
     }
 
+    public void testIVY1300() throws Exception {
+        ivy = Ivy.newInstance();
+        ivy.configure(new File("test/repositories/IVY-1300/ivysettings.xml"));
+
+        ResolveOptions opts = new ResolveOptions();
+        opts.setConfs(new String[] {"*"});
+        opts.setResolveId("resolveid");
+        opts.setTransitive(true);
+
+        ResolveReport report = ivy.resolve(
+            new File("test/repositories/IVY-1300/assembly-ivy.xml").toURL(),
+            opts
+        );
+        assertFalse(report.hasError());
+        
+        ModuleRevisionId modAExpectedRevId = ModuleRevisionId.newInstance("myorg", "modA", "trunk", "5");
+        ModuleRevisionId modBExpectedRevId = ModuleRevisionId.newInstance("myorg", "modB", "releasebranch", "1");
+
+        // check that the resolve report has the expected results, namely that trunk/5 is considered later than branch/1 
+        // purely because 5>1. Of course it is more likely that we would want to consider this a 'bad comparison', but 
+        // this Unit Test is not about that. It is about inconsistency of results between the resolve report and the 
+        // delivered descriptor. In fact the delivered descriptor is out of step, because retrieve and the report both 
+        // agree that trunk/5 is selected. Deliver begs to differ.
+
+        Set reportMrids = report.getConfigurationReport("default").getModuleRevisionIds();
+        assertEquals(
+            new HashSet(Arrays.asList(new ModuleRevisionId[] { modAExpectedRevId, modBExpectedRevId })),
+            reportMrids);
+        
+        DeliverOptions dopts = new DeliverOptions();
+        dopts.setGenerateRevConstraint(true);
+        dopts.setConfs(new String[] { "*" });
+        dopts.setStatus("release");
+        dopts.setPubdate(new Date());
+        dopts.setResolveId("resolveid");
+        String pubrev = "1";
+        String deliveryPattern = "build/test/deliver/assembly-[revision].xml";
+        
+        ivy.deliver(pubrev, deliveryPattern, dopts);
+
+        // now check that the resolve report has the same info as the delivered descriptor
+
+        File deliveredIvyFile = new File("build/test/deliver/assembly-1.xml");
+        assertTrue(deliveredIvyFile.exists());
+        ModuleDescriptor md = XmlModuleDescriptorParser.getInstance().parseDescriptor(
+            ivy.getSettings(), deliveredIvyFile.toURL(), false);
+        DependencyDescriptor[] dds = md.getDependencies();
+        assertEquals(2, dds.length);
+        assertEquals(ModuleRevisionId.newInstance("myorg", "modB", "releasebranch", "1"), dds[1].getDependencyRevisionId());
+        // this will fail - for some reason the deliver thinks that releasebranch/1 is selected
+        assertEquals(ModuleRevisionId.newInstance("myorg", "modA", "trunk", "5"), dds[0].getDependencyRevisionId());
+    }
+
     public void testUseCacheOnly() throws Exception {
         ResolveOptions option = getResolveOptions(new String[] {"*"}).setValidate(false);
         URL url = new File("test/repositories/1/usecacheonly/mod1/ivys/ivy-1.0.xml").toURI()
Index: test/repositories/IVY-1300/assembly-ivy.xml
===================================================================
--- test/repositories/IVY-1300/assembly-ivy.xml	(revision 0)
+++ test/repositories/IVY-1300/assembly-ivy.xml	(revision 0)
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+   or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+   distributed with this work for additional information
+   regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+   to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+   "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+   with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+   software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+   "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+   KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+   specific language governing permissions and limitations
+   under the License.    
+-->
+<ivy-module version="2.0">
+  <info organisation="myorg" module="projectassembly" branch="releasebranch" revision="1"/>
+  <configurations>
+    <conf name="default"/>
+  </configurations>
+  <publications>
+  </publications>
+  <dependencies>
+    <dependency name="modA" rev="latest.integration" branch="releasebranch" conf="default->default"/>
+    <dependency name="modB" rev="latest.integration" branch="releasebranch" conf="default->default"/>
+  </dependencies>
+</ivy-module> 
Index: test/repositories/IVY-1300/ivysettings.xml
===================================================================
--- test/repositories/IVY-1300/ivysettings.xml	(revision 0)
+++ test/repositories/IVY-1300/ivysettings.xml	(revision 0)
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+   or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+   distributed with this work for additional information
+   regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+   to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+   "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+   with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+   software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+   "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+   KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+   specific language governing permissions and limitations
+   under the License.
+-->
+<ivysettings>
+   <settings defaultResolver="local" />
+   <resolvers>
+        <filesystem name="local" checkmodified="true" local="true">
+            <ivy pattern="${ivy.settings.dir}/[organisation]/[module]/[branch]/[revision]/ivy.xml"/>
+            <artifact pattern="${ivy.settings.dir}/[organisation]/[module]/[branch]/[revision]/[artifact].[ext]"/>
+        </filesystem>
+    </resolvers>
+</ivysettings>
Index: test/repositories/IVY-1300/myorg/modA/trunk/5/ivy.xml
===================================================================
--- test/repositories/IVY-1300/myorg/modA/trunk/5/ivy.xml	(revision 0)
+++ test/repositories/IVY-1300/myorg/modA/trunk/5/ivy.xml	(revision 0)
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+   or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+   distributed with this work for additional information
+   regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+   to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+   "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+   with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+   software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+   "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+   KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+   specific language governing permissions and limitations
+   under the License.    
+-->
+<ivy-module version="2.0">
+    <info organisation="myorg" module="modA" branch="trunk" revision="5" />
+    <configurations>
+      <conf name="default"/>
+    </configurations>
+    <publications>
+    </publications>
+</ivy-module>
Index: test/repositories/IVY-1300/myorg/modA/releasebranch/1/ivy.xml
===================================================================
--- test/repositories/IVY-1300/myorg/modA/releasebranch/1/ivy.xml	(revision 0)
+++ test/repositories/IVY-1300/myorg/modA/releasebranch/1/ivy.xml	(revision 0)
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+   or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+   distributed with this work for additional information
+   regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+   to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+   "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+   with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+   software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+   "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+   KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+   specific language governing permissions and limitations
+   under the License.    
+-->
+<ivy-module version="2.0">
+    <info organisation="myorg" module="modA" branch="releasebranch" revision="1" />
+    <configurations>
+      <conf name="default"/>
+    </configurations>
+    <publications>
+    </publications>
+</ivy-module>
Index: test/repositories/IVY-1300/myorg/modB/trunk/5/ivy.xml
===================================================================
--- test/repositories/IVY-1300/myorg/modB/trunk/5/ivy.xml	(revision 0)
+++ test/repositories/IVY-1300/myorg/modB/trunk/5/ivy.xml	(revision 0)
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+   or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+   distributed with this work for additional information
+   regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+   to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+   "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+   with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+   software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+   "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+   KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+   specific language governing permissions and limitations
+   under the License.    
+-->
+<ivy-module version="2.0">
+    <info organisation="myorg" module="modB" branch="trunk" revision="5" />
+    <configurations>
+      <conf name="default"/>
+    </configurations>
+    <publications>
+    </publications>
+    <dependencies>
+      <dependency org="myorg" name="modA" branch="trunk" rev="latest.integration" conf="default->default"/>
+    </dependencies>
+</ivy-module>
Index: test/repositories/IVY-1300/myorg/modB/releasebranch/1/ivy.xml
===================================================================
--- test/repositories/IVY-1300/myorg/modB/releasebranch/1/ivy.xml	(revision 0)
+++ test/repositories/IVY-1300/myorg/modB/releasebranch/1/ivy.xml	(revision 0)
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+   or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+   distributed with this work for additional information
+   regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+   to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+   "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+   with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+   software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+   "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+   KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+   specific language governing permissions and limitations
+   under the License.    
+-->
+<ivy-module version="2.0">
+    <info organisation="myorg" module="modB" branch="releasebranch" revision="1" />
+    <configurations>
+      <conf name="default"/>
+    </configurations>
+    <publications>
+    </publications>
+    <dependencies>
+      <dependency org="myorg" name="modA" branch="trunk" rev="latest.integration" conf="default->default"/>
+    </dependencies>
+</ivy-module>