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Re: Case only rename during merge breaks WC

From: David Glasser <glasser_at_davidglasser.net>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 09:29:02 -0800

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Erik Huelsmann <ehuels_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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!

I don't! :-)

Hopefully I'll be able to get my current musings into text form
sometime in the next few weeks; I'm looking forward to seeing yours as
well.

--dave

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