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Re: Case only rename during merge breaks WC

From: Erik Huelsmann <ehuels_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 18:26:23 +0100

On 3/4/08, David Glasser <glasser_at_davidglasser.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:52 AM, David Glasser <glasser_at_davidglasser.net> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > > Paul touched on that. The issue is that merge is like an edit of the
> > > > working copy. On Windows and OSX, you cannot do a case only-rename of
> > > > a file. You can receive an update because it is altering the working
> > > > copy as it goes.
> > >
> > > Sorry, I don't follow. How does a merge not act like an update here?
> >
> > Merge can be reverted, so both copies of the file need to remain in
> > the WC text-base.
>
> Oh, right! The issue is the text-base! Sorry, I didn't completely follow.
>
> (wc 2.0 can solve this isssue by storing text-bases (and any other
> pieces of content worth tracking) in a content-hash-addressable
> store.)

WC 2.0, if you don't mean Subversion 2.0, yes!

Bye,

Erik.

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