Re: Merging confuses renamed files

Jack Repenning <jrepenning@collab.net> writes:

> > I view diff as a dry-run of merge and if merge is going to delete
> > and re-add lots of lines, then I want to know that.
>
> My questions about diff's honorable ancestors notwithstanding .. what
> if merge had a "--dry-run" switch, that really actually guaranteedly
> showed you what merge would do without actually doing anything?

$ svn help merge
merge: apply the differences between two sources to a working copy path.
[...]
  --dry-run : try operation but make no changes
[...]

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Received on Sun Aug 24 22:23:16 2003