Re: Problems with hardlinks

Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> writes:
> If a file has changed on the server, svn simply applies a patch to the
> working copy file, in-place, using diff3. That's how it preserves
> local modifications. I guess we could make this more complex... make
> a tmp copy of the working file, patch it, delete the original, copy
> the tmp file back?

But isn't that what we do (the second way, I mean)? We have to anyway
to deal with keyword and eol untranslation... We don't do the "delete
the original" step, of course, we just rename over the original.

?

-K

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Received on Mon Oct 7 18:00:06 2002