SVN: Branch and reintegrate is not working with updated server
mergeinfo, svn
Solution
Two notes:
`^` in SVN-path means always repository-root, thus `^/c/branches/ovm_sequencer` implies "/c/branches/ovm_sequencer" inside repository, while you have (most probably) repository in `acme.com/a/b/c` path, and URL must be `^/branches/ovm_sequencer`
"Retrieval of mergeinfo unsupported" means one bad fact about your Network|SVN admin - he doesn't read Release Notes for updated software: in order to have mergeinfo supported on server side except updating software for pre-1.5 Subversion to 1.5 or later, repository also must to be upgraded in order to have new format. Topic (very old - from 2008 year) on Collabnet "mergeinfo not supported"
Problem
I am working with a Subversion server that was recently upgraded to version 1.7. I am using the command-line Linux client 1.7.10. I created a branch like this: `%: svn copy svn+ssh://acme.com/a/b/c/trunk svn+ssh://acme.com/a/b/c/branches/ovm_sequencer -m "Feature branch for ovm_sequencer"` After a couple of edits, I tried to reintegrate into the trunk and only ran into problems: ``` %: svn merge --reintegrate '^/c/branches/ovm_sequencer' svn: E160013: File not found: revision 1677, path '/c/branches/ovm_sequencer' %: svn merge --reintegrate svn+ssh://acme.com/a/b/c/branches/ovm_sequencer svn: E200007: Retrieval of mergeinfo unsupported by 'svn+ssh://acme.com/a/b/c/branches/ovm_sequencer' ``` What has gone wrong and how can it be fixed?