Re: conflict marker bikeshed

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 07:05:15PM -0600, Karl Fogel wrote:
> Jens Askengren <jensus@linux.nu> writes:
> > What about compability with editors?
> > Keeping the original CVS style as default would probably be a sane
> > choice.
>
> Could you explain in more detail?
>
> I'm normally very conservative and loath to part ways with CVS on
> things like this; in this instance, I'm guessing that the full 3-way
> (-A as opposed to -E) output might be more useable. I have no direct
> experience with it, so it's just a guess.
>
> If it breaks compatibility with some existing tools, though, that's a
> pretty powerful argument in favor of -E...

i suspect that most tools that work with cvs will need considerable
changes to work with svn anyway, so one more change, if it gives the
user more information and thus makes merging easier, doesn't seem like
a very big deal.

-garrett

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