Re: svn diff, svn merge, and vendor branches (long)

Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:

> I would just say that the reduction of the file case to the
> directory case is rather lossy, and (as you seem to have agreed, after
> looking at the merge code) should be replaced with special handling.

Not quite, I said they should be the same, I didn't specify which
should change :)

It is probably fairly simple to reuse the merge code for diff,
although it may involve an extra round trip to the server to determine
whether a given URL is a file or directory. One problem I forsee:
when we get as far as recording merge history, how are we going to
record the merge of the difference between two unrelated files? Will
subsequent merge-history-aware merges use that information?

-- 
Philip Martin
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