RE: RE: RE: Two people adding the same file - can both versions be merged?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Graf-Waczenski [mailto:rgw@lsoft.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 9:56 AM
> To: Subversion Users
> Subject: RE: RE: Two people adding the same file - can both
> versions be merged?
>
> > I think the point is that most of the time, when (if?) two
> people add
> > the same file, it's not guaranteed to mean the same thing
> or have the
> > same content.
>
> If two people add the file
> /path/to/some/deeply/nested/place/myFile.txt,
> what else than the same thing is this supposed to mean?

That 2 different people chose the same name for different contents? It
does happen, believe me. What level of nesting is deep enough to
guarantee this assumption? 3 levels? 5 levels? 9 levels? How would
you tell the machine what sort of guess is good enough for you?

This is the class of problem that --ignore-ancestry is intended to
resolve. But it seems it doesn't work here unless the 2 files are
identical. The --ignore-ancestry switch makes no difference in the
outcome. That seems like a bug to me!

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Received on Wed May 9 21:03:45 2007