Re: Updating local-moves (was: svn commit: r1301390 ...)

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Greg Stein <gstein_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Personally, I'd be surprised if an edit/move conflict is all that
> common. Maybe you/others have some data on this? More prevalent in
> larger teams? Remote uncoordinated teams?

I may be a victim of selection bias in that I spend most of my time
working with Java projects, but IMO, this has always been the #1
complaint against Subversion. Renaming is extremely common in Java
and in large teams this is a nightmare. I have long maintained that
most of the complaints about merge in Subversion are more about this
issue then about the kinds of issues that we classify as "merge
tracking".

I think the majority of users I work with would greatly appreciate it
if Subversion handled these cases automatically and handled it more
like a text conflict when it could not.

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Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/