RE: [Subclipse-users] Subclipse states there is a conflict when there is not

For anyone interested I think that I have resolved this issue while a co-worker of mine was fixing a different issue with his Subclipse setup. The underlying cause appears to be the properties file itself (where SVN is storing the ignore list). Subclipse is displaying a conflict because the .svn/dir-prop-base file has been modified (entries were added to the ignore list). This doesn't seem to show up as a conflict on the command line so I think this is actually a bug with Subclipse (i.e. there is not a one-to-one mapping between the behavior of command line SVN and Subclipse). I don't think Subclipse should be reporting differences on the properties files but I have found a workaround.

To resolve this issue I simply committed the directory to SVN after ignoring files which (under the covers) is actually committing the new properties file. So the steps would be something like:

1. checkout the project
2. run builds or whatever, and then add all of the files you want to the svn:ignore list
3. without any changes to the source files anywhere, commit the top level directory (or any directory showing conflict) back to svn.

I'm actually not sure if you need to have zero changes between the source files or not, but I did that just in case. When the directory gets committed back to SVN it is actually just committing the properties on that directory, so it's really committing the new .svn/dir-prop-base. Now Subclipse no longer reports a conflict because the two files are the same. If you update the ignore list at any point I think you're going to run into this issue again though.

The problem with this "solution" is that it means you have created a global ignore list. Anyone checking out your project will have the same ignore list, and maybe some people want to ignore different files? If so I suppose they can always modify the ignore list themselves. I did this in Linux by changing the default editor (I would prefer vim over nano) and running the propedit command like this:

$ export SVN_EDITOR=vim
$ svn propedit svn:ignore .

------------------------------------------------------
http://subclipse.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=1047&dsMessageId=2815764

To unsubscribe from this discussion, e-mail: [users-unsubscribe_at_subclipse.tigris.org].
Received on 2011-08-11 18:59:16 CEST