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Re: Automatic tree conflicts resolution during svn update

From: Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 23:36:47 +0200

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 02:12:14PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 07:21:19PM +0400, Danil Shopyrin wrote:
>> > The current draft of the Subversion 1.8 Release Notes announces
>> > automatic tree conflicts resolution for locally moved files and
>> > directories. But it seems that this feature does not actually work in
>> > RC2. The detailed reproduction script is given below. I think that we
>> > should either drop this feature from the release notes or provide a
>> > better documentation on how to make it work.
>>
>> The feature is present and works as advertised. It's just not triggered
>> automatically because there were objections to making decisions on
>> behalf of the user.
>>
>> Note that this is the behaviour of 'svn' -- other clients can implement
>> different behaviour and suggest or even hard-code some default option
>> without asking the user.
>>
>> I think the problem with 'svn' is that the menu options were too hard
>> to figure out. After some discussion with Ivan, I've tweaked the conflict
>> prompt menu for clarity in this commit: http://svn.apache.org/r1491762
>>
>> Does this change settle the issue for you?
>
> FYI, this is what the new output looks like:
>
> $ svn up -r3
> Updating '.':
> C alpha
> At revision 3.
> Summary of conflicts:
> Tree conflicts: 1
> Tree conflict on 'alpha'
> > local file moved away, incoming file edit upon update
> Select: (mc) apply edit (recommended), (r) discard edit (breaks move),

Why does discarding the incoming edit break the (local) move?

--
Johan
Received on 2013-06-11 23:37:40 CEST

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