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RE: Merging the unmergable

From: Miller, Eric <Eric.Miller_at_amd.com>
Date: 2007-09-12 00:25:24 CEST

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Sickler [mailto:crazyfordynamite@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 4:17 PM
 
> On 9/11/07, Miller, Eric <Eric.Miller@amd.com> wrote:
> > Does anyone know if there is a way to specify a merge script for
binary
> > files? The --diff3-cmd switch only seems to work on text files.

> You cant merge binary files. You must pick either 1. yours, 2. the
> one from the repo, or 3. halt, rewrite your binary, then recommit.

You mean "can't" as in "Subversion has no way to let you" or "can't" as
in "binary files are intrinsically unmergable"?

Cuz I have some binary files I can, and would like to, merge.

Ex:
Say (for whatever reason) I must maintain binary files.
Lets just say that some 3rd party tool reads and writes these.
But it is possible for me to create a diff script that can uncompress,
merge the text and then rewrite the binary.
Heck, pretend it is just a gzip'd text file and you have a good example.

So in the case of a gzip it would be gzip -d => diff3 => gzip. But how
do I tell subversion to use my special diff command for these binary
files?

Thanks!

Eric

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