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Re: Merges lost

From: Michael W Thelen <thelenm_at_cs.utah.edu>
Date: 2004-04-02 00:38:18 CEST

* Tim Armes <tarmes@fr.imaje.com> [2004-04-01 09:52]:
> We seem to be having an occassional (and unreproducable problem) whereby a
> developer will update their local working copy which results in files being
> merged automatically. Once committed however, it becomes apparent that the
> merged files are actually not merged, and that the version now in the
> repository is that of the developer - i.e. the previous changes made before
> his update are no longer in the head revision.

I would strongly suspect that this is a user problem, perhaps the text editor
behavior mentioned by Lorenz Minder. Do your developers run 'svn diff' before
committing to make sure they are committing exactly the changes they think
they are? This is a good policy in general, and would help to make it clear
whether the problem is really a user problem or a Subversion problem.

-- Mike

-- 
Michael W. Thelen
Under capitalism, man exploits man.  Under communism, it's just the opposite.
                -- John Kenneth Galbraith

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