Question

I’m trying to reintegrate a development branch into the trunk in my Subversion 1.5 repository. I merged all the changes from the trunk to the development branch prior to this operation. Now when I try to reintegrate the changes from the branch I get the following error message:

Command: Reintegrate merge https://dev/svn/branches/devel into C:\trunk  
Error: Reintegrate can only be used if revisions 280 through 325 were previously   
Error: merged from https://dev/svn/trunk to the reintegrate   
Error: source, but this is not the case:  
Error:   branches/devel/images/test  
Error:     Missing ranges: /trunk/images/test:280-324  
...

The message then goes on complaining about some folders in my project. But when I try to merge the changes from the trunk to the development branch again, TortoiseSVN tells me that there’s nothing to merge (as I already merged all the changes before):

Command: Merging revisions 1-HEAD of https://dev/svn/trunk into C:\devel, respecting ancestry  
Completed: C:\devel  

I’m trying to follow the instructions from here: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.branchmerge.basicmerging.html, but there’s nothing about solving such a problem.

Any ideas? Perhaps I should just delete the trunk and then make a copy of my branch? But I’m not really sure if it’s safe.

See also

svn merge with –reintegrate complains about missing ranges but mergeinfo seems correct

Answer 1

You have to merge the revisions r280 to r324 from trunk into your branch first.

It seems you already merged r325 into your branch, however –reintegrate needs to get all revisions up to your latest revision merged. There must be no gap.
So here a little Diag:

           +----------------------> /branches/devel
          /                    /   \<--merge not working!
 --------/-------+--+---+-----+---------> trunk
         |       \  |  /      |
        280       \ V /      325
                    V
                  missing sync merges from trunk to branch

I think this is your branch structure, so you need to sync all changes from trunk to your branch. You only merged r325, so just merge r280-r324 and after doing this you should be fine to use –reintegrate