Re: two people add the same thing

On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 04:40, solo turn wrote:
> if two people want to add the same directory, it does not work automatically (0.32.1, linux):
>
> svn: Obstructed update
> svn: failed to add directory 'trunk/mydir': object of the same name already exists
>
> would an automatic "merge" with the existing thing in the working copy be possible?

Someday, perhaps we'll have sophisticated tree-merging tools that work
with the 'svn merge' and 'svn update' commands. For now, we only have
the ability to merge file contents. Resolving tree conflicts is a much
trickier problem. What you see above is only one of many different
kinds of tree conflict.

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Received on Tue Nov 11 14:13:16 2003