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Re: Tree conflicts - high-priority User Interface tasks

From: Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_btopenworld.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:24:47 +0100

On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 10:54 +0200, Stephen Butler wrote:
> Quoting "Neels J. Hofmeyr" <neels_at_elego.de>:
>
> >
> >
> > Julian Foad wrote:
> >> Here are some high-priority UI tasks for getting tree conflict handling
> >> to a releasable state.
> >>
> >> * "svn status" must be able to print "tree conflict" status on a
> >> victim that is not a versioned item in the WC (which happens when
> >> merging a deletion into a branch where the item was deleted earlier or
> >> never existed).
> >
> > taking this one. 'right?
> >
> >>
> >> * "svn status" must not print "C" on the parent.
> >> (That's easy apart from loads of Python tests to adjust.)
> >
> > and this one. scream if you're doing it already.
>
> Sorry for screaming so late. I have a diff that does both of these, plus
> the notifications in the 4th item below. I'll send it in a bit, though
> it's still rough.

That's great.

> On second thought, first I'll split it into separate status and notify
> diffs. They have less common code than I thought they would. Though
> it's weird to have intermediate states where expected_output and
> expected_status are inconsistent.
[...]

> >> * There must be a way to use "svn merge" to merge a required change
> >> into a WC to resolve a tree conflict. (The merge currently fails if
> >> there is any conflict already flagged, which is usually the desired
> >> behaviour, but not when you're trying to resolve a conflict and need to
> >> use a merge.)

OK, I'll take this one.

> >> * Notifications from "update", "switch", "merge" need to show "C" on
> >> the victim in a new column, rather than "C" on the parent in the first
> >> column.

- Julian

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