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Re: Tree conflicts - high-priority User Interface tasks

From: Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_btopenworld.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:11:19 +0100

On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 14:54 +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 02:00:39PM +0100, Julian Foad wrote:
> > * There must be a way to use "svn merge" to merge a required change
> > into a WC to resolve a tree conflict. (The merge currently fails if
> > there is any conflict already flagged, which is usually the desired
> > behaviour, but not when you're trying to resolve a conflict and need to
> > use a merge.)
>
> What about making a merge into a tree conflict victim conditional
> on the popular --force switch?

Yeah, maybe that really is a valid use of "--force". It looks like a
reasonable solution to the problem.

(I hereby swear that this really is me saying this. :-) )

You want to do it? I don't know if I could look at myself in the mirror
if I did it.

- Julian

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