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Re: conflicts, history, and the Principle Of Least Surprise

From: Karl Fogel <kfogel_at_newton.ch.collab.net>
Date: 2002-02-21 05:53:18 CET

Branko Čibej <brane@xbc.nu> writes:
> For text files, it would be *really* nice if we could make sure that
> the user can't accidentally commit a file that contains conflict
> markers. Since scanning the file is typically not enough, I'd suggest
> that we require some kind of user action to remove the "conflicted"
> state from the file, e.g., "svn ci --force" (which should behave like
> "svn revert" with --depth=0 and no implicit targets), or perhaps a new
> command (svn resolve?) would do it. This command could also remove the
> merge source files.

We could try out such protection, but let's do so after the main merge
functionality is implemented. I was also thinking of an "svn resolve"
command (no kidding -- same name!), but didn't want to complexify the
proposal by adding that at this stage. :-)

> Now a small wish ... It'd be nice if "svn up" could take a --no-merge
> option, so that it would *not* merge modifications into the working
> copy, but would only set the conflict state and provide the various
> versions needed for the merge. In fact --no-merge would be the default
> (and only) behaviour for binary files.

Similar reaction -- agree might be good, but it's last 10%, not first.

(Of course agree this behavior should be default for binary files!)

-K

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