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Re: Weird conflicts for no reason

From: Robert Dailey <rcdailey_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:18:05 -0500

I'll give you access to the repository. I'll email the information and
instructions to your personal email address.

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Robert Dailey wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 3:19 AM, Simon Large
> > <simon.tortoisesvn_at_googlemail.com
> > <mailto:simon.tortoisesvn_at_googlemail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > 2008/10/10 Robert Dailey <rcdailey_at_gmail.com
> > <mailto:rcdailey_at_gmail.com>>:
> > > Hey Stefan,
> > >
> > > I realize this is a question for the Subversion mailing list but I
> was
> > > curious as to what you thought about it first.
> > >
> > > Have you ever created a feature branch, kept it up to date, and
> > then got
> > > ready to merge it back to trunk and you get random file conflicts?
> The
> > > conflicts usually conflict the entire file, and viewing the
> conflicts
> > > through TortoiseMerge doesn't show any conflict. You actually have
> > to open
> > > the file manually and look at the position of the <<<<<<<<<<<< and
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > > symbols to see the conflicted areas. When I merge the feature
> > branch back to
> > > trunk, I use the bottom of the 3 merge options in the merge dialog.
> > >
> > > Note that I'm using the latest nightly build, and I'm not sure
> > what version
> > > of SVN that it is using. The conflicts I'm getting should never
> > happen,
> > > since they are exactly the same content-wise in the feature branch
> > as they
> > > are in the trunk. Just wondering if you've seen this issue.
> >
> > Most likely the line endings have changed. There is an option in
> > TMerge to show line endings, and to include line-endings in the diff.
> > If this turns out to be the problem, make sure you set svn:eol-style
> > to avoid it.
> >
> >
> > I did as you instructed and enabled line endings in TortoiseMerge.
> > However, it is still not showing any differences. Note that I right
> > click conflicted items with the merge progress dialog still up (but
> > completed) and select "Edit Conflicts" from there.
>
> Can you edit the conflicts directly from explorer? Or does that now work
> either?
> I would need some recipe on how to reproduce this though, I can't just
> try merge after merge after merge until I get such a conflict :)
>
> Stefan
>
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Received on 2008-10-10 22:18:19 CEST

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