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Re: Problem with multiple users moving and updating files

From: Duncan Murdoch <murdoch_at_stats.uwo.ca>
Date: 2006-05-25 21:06:00 CEST

On 5/25/2006 2:46 PM, Adam Aulick wrote:
> On May 25, 2006, at 2:21 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>
>> On 5/25/2006 2:17 PM, Adam Aulick wrote:
>>> User A renames a header file foo.h to bar.h (using subversion
>>> command) and modifies four dozen source files to match.
>>> User B commits modified foo.h
>>> User A does an update -- correct behavior is to merge foo.h
>>> changes from the repository into bar.h in the working copy.
>>
>> --- and report a conflict to be resolved by the user ----
>>
>> It is possible that something B did is incompatible with the
>> rename. User A should have to confirm this is not the case before
>> committing the rename.
>
> Well, of course, but this is true any time a file is simultaneously
> changed in two working copies. It's not any more true in this case.

But normally if two people edit the same part of the same file, one of
them sees it marked as a conflict on checkout. That doesn't happen
here. I'm saying that the deletion of a file should count as an edit of
every line in the file.

It's possible if we had a full implementation of your suggestion that we
wouldn't need this, because a rename wouldn't involve a delete. I was
thinking of a partial implementation, where svn does what you say above,
but still treats renames as delete+add.

Duncan Murdoch

>
> What I would like to see in the client is a status flag on every file
> in the working copy that has been merged (which the user can clear
> after manually reviewing the merge) and a new property to indicate
> whether files may be committed with the unreviewed-merge flag still
> set. The flag is part of the working copy and not sent to the
> repository. But that's a separate issue unrelated to file renaming.
>
>
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