Re: merging into locally added files

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Julian Foad <julian.foad_at_wandisco.com> wrote:
> Stefan Sperling wrote:
>> It does not seem possible right now to merge into locally added
>> files, because the Subversion assumes that the merge target will
>> always have a corresponding URL in the repository, and errors out.
>>
>> With a bit of special-casing during error handling in a few places,
>> I succeeded in making this use case work:
> [...]
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> Hi Stefan.  In my opinion, Subversion should allow such a merge to be
> attempted, and the result should be a textual merge like you've done
> here

Stefan,

This change in behavior seems sound to me and I don't see it causing
any problems in the merge-tracking realm.

> if the tree conflict detection policy is "relaxed", and should be a
> tree conflict if the policy is "strict".  (Yes, the "tree conflict
> detection policy" switch only exists in my head.)

I don't follow you there, how would a merge to a file ever be a tree
conflict? Or do you mean if our merge target is an added directory?
Stefan's patch supports that as well.

> Please do split up the patch!

Agreed.

Paul

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Received on 2010-08-04 17:30:16 CEST