Re: conflicted directory

Bolstridge, Andrew wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I’ve just had my first “tree conflict” when merging in SVN, I
> had deleted some files from a previous revision that weren’t present
> when I merged so svn decided to tell me about them. I also had a few
> other conflicts which I resolved.
>
> No problem there – except I saw my directory had the little red
> triangle on it for the conflict and it wouldn’t go away – usually I take
> the icon with a small pinch of salt as they sometimes don’t refresh as
> quickly as I’d like, and I thought this was the problem. However, not in
> this case – the missing files were causing my directory to require a
> conflict resolution.
>
> So, I right-clicked and looked for the ‘edit conflicts’ menu
> item, which doesn’t exist. At this point I was a bit stumped as to what
> to do, in the end I decided to just mark the directory as resolved, and
> sort it out later – so I selected the ‘resolved’ menu item, and it
> presented me with a little dialog of missing files that allowed me to
> tell it those files were correctly missing.
>
> What confused me is that for conflicted files, I have to edit
> and then resolve them; for a directory I have to go straight to the
> resolved command which allows me to ‘edit’ the conflicts. That didn’t
> seem to be best practice for usability. Is there a reason its done this
> way, or do you think there should there be an ‘edit conflicts’ menu item
> for conflicted directories?

"edit conflicts" is to edit conflicts in text files (you can edit text
files). But you can't edit a tree conflict (how would you edit a
folder?). That's why the menu items are named differently and also
behave differently.
The only thing you can do with tree conflicts is to resolve them (most
of those tree conflicts have to be resolved manually since TSVN has no
way of helping you with this) and then mark them as resolved.

But I'm open for suggestions on how to improve this.

Stefan

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