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Remote move vs local edit conflict resolution options

From: Evgeny Kotkov <evgeny.kotkov_at_visualsvn.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 19:09:15 +0300

Hi,

I was thinking about which options should be offered by the tree conflict
resolver in a common case with a catch-up merge when a file is moved
away in trunk and edited on the branch. (Limiting the scope to a case
when we can detect the move.)

Currently, the resolver offers the "move local file and merge" option, but
also offers to ignore or accept the incoming deletion:
[[[

  File merged from
  '^/serf/trunk/serf.h_at_33'
  to
  '^/serf/trunk/serf.h_at_36'
  was moved to '^/serf/trunk/serf_deprecated.h' by evgeny.kotkov in r35.
  A file which differs from the corresponding file on the merge source branch
  was found in the working copy.

    (p) - skip this conflict and leave it unresolved [postpone]
    (r) - accept current working copy state [working]
    (i) - ignore the deletion of '^/serf/trunk/serf.h_at_36'
    (a) - accept the deletion of 'serf.h'
    (m) - move 'serf.h' to 'serf_deprecated.h' and merge
    (h) - show this help (also '?')
    (q) - postpone all remaining conflicts

  Select: (p) postpone, (r) accept current working copy state,
          (i) ignore incoming deletion, (a) accept incoming deletion,
          (m) move 'serf.h' to 'serf_deprecated.h' and merge,
          (h) help, (q) quit resolution:

]]]

The resolver says that it has detected a move, so options "(i) ignore
incoming deletion" and "(a) accept incoming deletion" can confuse the
users (what's deleted?). And, if we know that it's actually a move, I
cannot think of a case where ignoring or accepting the deletion would
prove useful.

Perhaps, for cases when we know that a move happened, it would be better
to just say:

  Select: (p) postpone, (r) accept current working copy state,
          (m) move 'serf.h' to 'serf_deprecated.h' and merge,
          (h) help, (q) quit resolution:

I could implement this behavior. How does it sound?

Regards,
Evgeny Kotkov
Received on 2016-09-30 18:09:41 CEST

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