Subversion can't merge after a move

Question

I\'m very new to Subversion, but I\'ve used other revision control systems like ClearCase for years.

My boss asked me to fix this project so that it could be built w

Answer 1

To answer your question directly:

Is there a way to make Subversion do the revision management, or am I going to be manually merging this guy’s changes for the next two days?

You should be able to make it a little bit easier on yourself.

One thing that you can do to alleviate some of the pain (assuming a layout as follows)

/branch/foo/src/com
/branch/foo/test/com
/trunk/src/main/java/com
/trunk/src/test/java/com

Before you moved src/com to src/main/java/com and test/com to src/test/java/com you could have done:

cd $TRUNK
svn merge -r N:M http://server/branch/foo .

What you could do now is:

cd $TRUNK
svn merge -r N:M http://server/branch/foo/src/com src/main/java/com
svn merge -r N:M http://server/branch/foo/test/com src/test/java/com

Hope this helps to save you some time.