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Re: [Subclipse-users] Changed files and then an update where the file (or directory) is moved/renamed..

From: Johan Compagner <jcompagner_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 16:26:13 +0200

thx for the link. thats exactly it.. Would be nice if this would be fixed
someday.

johan

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Johan Compagner <jcompagner_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I just read the other thread about moving dirs with changed files. And i
> > thought i also have such
> > a thing but a bit different.
> >
> > Now i have changed files but another renamed it or (this was really the
> > case) renamed/moved the complete dir.
> >
> > What happens then after the update is that my changed files still are in
> old
> > dir. As outgoing additions
> > And i have the new dir that is clean.
> >
> > What would be nice if subversion of subclipse would see that and moved by
> > changes with it.
> >
> > Because now i dont know if the other person also changed the file.. So i
> > cant just copy over it
> > i have to merge manually my changes back into the file which can be time
> > consuming.
>
> Yes, this is all true. This is a known limitation in the handling of
> renames in Subversion.
>
> http://markphip.blogspot.com/2006/12/subversion-moverename-feature.html
>
> Some work is going into this area in Subversion 1.6, although it is
> going to be more about flagging conflicts when this happens so that
> the situation is made more obvious. In some cases, hopefully it will
> also just move the file and apply your updates to it.
>
> --
> Thanks
>
> Mark Phippard
> http://markphip.blogspot.com/
>
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