Re: Mismerge case

Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:

> On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 21:05 +0100, Philip Martin wrote:
>> We could make Subversion's diff require context, like GNU diff3, but
>> at the expense of making some currently successful merges into
>> conflicts. Would that be an improvement? It's not clear; in lots of
>> cases Subversion's ability to merge without context produces the right
>> result in cases where GNU diff would produce a conflict.
>
> I claim that most three-way merge tools do require some context, and we
> are being abnormally aggressive in producing successful merges with no
> context.

How many of those merge tools are built on top of GNU diff?

I have no objections to somebody making merge context optional, but I
like the current behaviour.

-- 
Philip Martin
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