// "merge" the clonedNode with the newNode from the default workspace
// besteffort set to false to stop at the first failure
VersionManager versionManager = nodeToMerge.getSession().getWorkspace().getVersionManager();
String path = nodeToMerge.getPath();
versionManager.merge(path, workspace.getName(), false);
final String originalBaseVersionId = originalVersionManager.getBaseVersion(originalPath).getIdentifier();
final String clonedBaseVersionId = versionManager.getBaseVersion(path).getIdentifier();
assertTrue("clonedNode has different version UUID than expected, it should be updated with the newNode version UUID", originalBaseVersionId.equals(clonedBaseVersionId));