What mechanisms for code comparison and merge between versions on svn are used?

Hi,

I was interested on learning more about the mechanisms used on svn to
verify if a certain code has been modified or not and how the merge
function works. Is there any non-code documentation available for this? I
would also be interested on knowing if svn employs any abstract syntax tree
comparisons during this comparison between versions and merging (or maybe
anywhere else) for any of its usage.

(I hope I hit the right mailing list since this is not usage related).

Thank you in advance,

Carlos Andrade
http://carlosandrade.co
Received on 2012-06-10 08:52:33 CEST