Strange "changed paths" in svn commits

[Tim Kientzle]

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.

Tim