When trying to merge from our trunk to a branch I was getting these errors:

svn: File ‘/tmp/svnkitmerge42139.tmp/.diff.192.tmp’ has inconsistent newlines
svn: File ‘/tmp/svnkitmerge42139.tmp/.diff.192.tmp’ has inconsistent newlines

and

svn: File ‘/tmp/tmp’ has inconsistent newlines svn: Inconsistent line ending style
svn: Error reading spooled REPORT request response

svn: Generic IO error
svn: Generic IO error



Here are the steps I did to get around this and still merge from trunk to the branch:

  1. Check out a fresh copy of the branch.
  2. Merge the branch to the latest, skipping over the revision that did the newline changes (5893 in my case). You might have to do two merges for this: previous merge point to 5892, then one from 5894 to HEAD.
  3. Run the fix_newlines.sh script.
  4. Commit the branch.

Note: If you have changes on another checked out copy, an “svn update” won’t work on that one. You will have to apply a patch of the changes to the freshly checked out/merged copy.

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I had a lot of trouble recently merging a renamed branch back into trunk. I ended up having to resort to the command line to get the exact parameter setup that I wanted. Subclipse didn’t quite cut it, unfortunately.

To set the stage:

  1. All changes on trunk have been merged to the branch (complex-obs) and committed
  2. The checked out trunk copy is up-to-date

I created a patch file comparing trunk to the branch:

svn diff –old /home/ben/workspace/openmrs-trunk-clean –new http://svn.openmrs.org/openmrs/branches/complex-obs > /home/ben/openmrs/patches/complexobs.diff

I then applied that patch file to my local trunk copy:

patch -p0 < /home/ben/openmrs/patches/complexobs.diff

This should only be used if you plan on closing the branch. Subversion isn’t able to keep track of any ancestry this way, so future merges would be harder.

Note: Diff files don’t handle binary files. You will need to move those yourself. I suggest comparing the patched trunk with your branch to make sure everything is the same. (In eclipse, select the root of both projects, then right click–>compare with–>each other)

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If you don’t want to upgrade to use the gui update-manager program (update-manager -d) in Ubuntu, you can upgrade your system with the simple call to apt-get:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade


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