"Ph. Marek" wrote:
> > text files which are normally mergeable can sometimes be
> > modified in hard-to-merge ways.
> But that depends entirely on the merge-tools.
> Your example given I'd expect the file to have a mime-type of text/xml
(or
> some such) and then svn should do the merge by using a special program
for
> xml.
>
> To be honest, I'd believe even tiff-pictures to be mergeable using the
correct
> algorithms and programs - eg. by dumping them in ppm(5) format with
every
> pixel on its line ...
Sorry, that argument won't wash. While it may be theoretically possible
to produce a merge tool for every imaginable file type, in practice most
people don't have them, which is why they want locking.
Also, the whole point about using text-based files format is that they
are easy to edit using any text editor, which makes them accessible to
anyone. Relying on special purpose merge tools negates that
accessibility.
Simon
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Received on Thu Oct 14 12:31:40 2004