Re: Patch command execution

On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 02:17:22PM -0600, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> > Given the requirement that it only support the default diff format svn
> > generates,
>
> ...whoa there. SVN sends its own binary diff format over the *wire*
> only. During an update, this binary diff is used to recreate a new
> pristine fulltext in .svn/tmp/. Then we use diff/patch to perform a
> *context* merge into the user's existing local mods.

I still don't understand why we use diff+patch to do this instead of a
real 3-way merge program (which has more information and therefore can
do a better job).

zw

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:37:05 2006