Re: 1.5: Broken merge conflict resolution for symlinks

Blair Zajac <blair_at_orcaware.com> writes:
> Re'ccing so other developers see this.
>
> Should we put this ticket into 1.5?

I don't feel this is a 1.5-stopper. Interactive conflict resolution
highlights the problem, but the problem predates 1.5 (it could happen
with just conflict markers, for example).

Of course it would be nice to solve the bug :-). Maybe for svn:special
files, we should:

   a) tolerate a newline at the end of the first (and only) line

   b) add the newline to both sides of the merge at merge time (if the
      newline isn't already present, that is)

Beyond that, I'm not sure there's much we can do. If people edit a file
to have a bogus path, then the symlink is going to be broken. We could
provide special editing checks for this case in interactive conflict
resolution, but I'm not sure it's worth it...

-Karl

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Received on 2008-03-24 04:13:30 CET