Re: how to prevent of an automatic merge

On 5/9/06, Linton Carver <lintonkwesi@gmx.de> wrote:
> Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn@...> writes:
> >
> > If you tell me how you do an automatic merge during a commit, I'll
> > tell you how to prevent an automatic merge during an update.
> >
>
> Aaaahhhh, I fear I will never get an answer. I only thought, that a commit will
> do the automatic merge, if there is no conflict reason. (I thought that I've
> check this out, but maybe it was in a parallel universe). Ok there is no
> automatic merge during a commit. Do you think it's nevertheless possible to get
> an answer :-)

Possible ways to disable automatic merging during an update:
* tell Subversion that a file is binary and can't be merged: set the
svn:mime-type property of a file to something different than text/*
(e.g. 'application/octet-stream').
* Settings-dialog, first page. Click on "Edit" (Subversion
configuration file). Then, in that file, check the [helpers] section.
There are entries there 'diff-cmd' and 'diff3-cmd'. You can set those
to a script/program which will always return FALSE. That will make
Subversion believe the file can't be merged.

Stefan

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