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Re: Re: Force commit?

From: Menachem Bazian <groups_at_bcconsultingservices.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 09:31:33 -0500

I probably did not do an update since my copy is supposed to be the
definitive one. The only person in my company who is supposed to be able to
update this repository (it's my framework) is me.

Real strange.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Large" <simon.tortoisesvn_at_googlemail.com>
To: <users_at_tortoisesvn.tigris.org>
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Force commit?

> On 01/02/2008, Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Feb 1, 2008 11:49 AM, Menachem Bazian
>> <groups_at_bcconsultingservices.com> wrote:
>> > Beats the heck out of me. My guess is compiled code.
>> >
>> > These files are binary Visual FoxPro files which are tables. Some of
>> > the
>> > fields have the code and others have the compiled p-code. I am guessing
>> > the
>> > p-Code changed.
>> >
>> > But even so, I am the only one with write rights to this respository. I
>> > cannot imagine how I could have a conflict.
>>
>> Because a "conflict" doesn't mean "someone else changed this", it
>> means "there's a difference between the WC and the repository which
>> Subversion can't merge itself." Since they're binaries, that's going
>> to happen almost every time.
>
> Not quite. Normally those would just show up as modified. A conflict
> occurs when there is a difference between the working copy and the
> working BASE (the state of the file as it exists in the repository
> last time you updated), and also a difference between the working copy
> and HEAD in the repository.
>
> Normally that happens when more than one person is working on the same
> file, so you do an update, work on the file and in the meantime
> someone else has changed their copy of the file and committed a change
> to the repository, so HEAD and your BASE no longer match.
>
> In this case, the only scenario I can think of which would cause this
> is that you used 'Update to revision' to update your WC to an older
> revision and edited those older rev files. If you now try to update,
> subversion has to try to merge the changes between HEAD and the
> version you backdated to into your local changes, and as these are
> binary files it can't do it.
>
> Hope that makes sense,
>
> Simon
>
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