Strange "changed paths" in svn commits

[Rick C. Petty]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 08:21:25AM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> Rick C. Petty wrote:
> >On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 01:15:17PM +0200, Artis Caune wrote:
> >
> >I suspect you've run into a well-known svn bug that affects "svn merge".  I
> >thought they had fixed it with subversion 1.5.4, but apparently it's still
> >around.  When doing a merge, it seems to randomly touch a bunch of files..
> >it only updates the svn:mergeinfo property on those files  ...
> 
> I've seen this happen only once and eventually figured
> out that I had a partial checkout underneath the merge point.
> It was especially confusing in my case because I actually
> had a complete checkout---nothing was missing---but
> one of the directories was marked "depth=immediates"
> so it was treated as a partial checkout.
> 
> If the svn:mergeinfo has asterisks in it, this is why.

In my case, I had a fresh copy that I merged a single file into, but it
touched 5 other random files; files I had never seen, much less ever
edited.  We've seen this behavior for weeks, but the rate of occurances
dropped significantly with svn 1.5.4-- dropped, not disappeared completely.

-- Rick C. Petty