lgo@mobsol.be wrote (on 11th July):
>
> I'm setting up a procedure where changes on a hotfix branch are merged to
> a maintenance branch. But, instead of using a standard merge, we want that
> all files that were changed on the hotfix branch are copied over to the
> the maintenance branch, ie. a replace action.
>
> To make this possible, I used the --diff3-cmd parameter to svn merge, and
> used a standard replace script ( YOURS=$9 \n echo $YOURS \n exit 0 ).
>
> This works pretty well for text files, but fails for binary files, putting
> them in Conflict state. Which was unwanted, because in our case we definitely
> know how to merge binary files. I didn't find another option to force this.
>
> Is there a way to force this behaviour for binary files as well.
I didn't see an answer to this message. I don't think there is a way to get
Subversion to merge files that it thinks are "binary", but I think there should be.
You can get Subversion to diff such files by specifying "--force", but
"--force" does not have that effect on "svn merge".
- Julian
> Any ideas?
>
> regards,
>
> Lieven.
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