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Re: [RFC] Run the conflict resolver callback per file during merge - issue #4238

From: Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_btopenworld.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:41:14 +0000 (GMT)

I (Julian Foad) wrote on 2012-01-25:

> Stefan Sperling wrote:
>> I filed the issue. I think I had in mind that we'd store multiple
>> conflicts, but I'm not quite sure.
>>
>> I agree with your plans to deal with the non-interactive --accept case.

In r1440193 I did that, closing issue #4238.

>> I have one concern about the interactive case where no --accept option
>> was passed, which we might want to consider addressing as well for 1.8.
>>
>> Currently, 'svn merge' errors out as follows if one of the ranges
>> merged in a multi-range merge conflicts.
> ...
>> That's fine and expected. It is the same as the --accept=postpone
>> behaviour you are proposing.
>>
>> But it seems what's missing is to continue the merge in case no
>> conflicts are left after the resolver returns. Consider:
>>
>>   $ svn merge -c3,4 ^/trunk
>>   --- Merging r3 into '.':
>>   C    alpha
> ...
>>   Conflict discovered in file 'alpha'.
> ...
>>   Select: (p) postpone, (df) diff-full, (e) edit, (m) merge, (r) resolved,
>>           (mc) mine-conflict, (tc) theirs-conflict, (s) show all options: r
>>   Resolved conflicted state of 'alpha'
> ...
>>   svn: E155015: One or more conflicts were produced while merging r2:3 into
>>   '/tmp/svn-sandbox/branch' --
>>   resolve all conflicts and rerun the merge to apply the remaining
>>   unmerged revisions
>>
>> So the conflict has been resolved, but 'svn merge' stops anyway.
>> I think it should continue merging further ranges instead.
>>
>> I don't think we should continue the merge in case any conflicts are
>> left in the working copy, of course
>
> OK, that all sounds good.  I'll try to make it happen.

I'll tackle that next.

- Julian
Received on 2013-01-30 00:41:50 CET

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