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Re: How to read 3-way differences in TortoiseMerge?

From: Robert Dailey <rcdailey_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:54:17 -0500

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Simon Large <
> simon.tortoisesvn_at_googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> 2008/7/23 Robert Dailey <rcdailey_at_gmail.com>:
>> >
>> > I'm still pretty confused about that top-left pane.
>> >
>> > You say it's the merge result of the last commit revision and BASE. BASE
>> I'm
>> > assuming is the lastest revision of that file that I have in my working
>> > copy. The last commit revision seems like it would be the exact same
>> thing,
>> > since my last update OBTAINED the last commit revision (as it would have
>> > been committed by someone else). The file showed the following:
>> >
>> > The changes for *this* update (the update that resulted in me viewing
>> the
>> > diff in the first place)
>> > Changes from about 2-3 updates back (These shouldn't be showing up, as
>> they
>> > have nothing to do with what I care about... which is the changes
>> obtained
>> > in *this* update)
>> >
>> > Sorry for being slow about this. I appreciate you taking the time to
>> explain
>> > this to me.
>>
>> I'm guessing here, but I could imagine TSVN noting the last-commit
>> revision of the item being updated before doing the update, then using
>> that revision as the basis for the 3-way diff. Does that make any more
>> sense of your data?
>>
>
> Say we have a file named foo.cpp that has 3 commit revisions (In other
> words, I committed the file 3 times and each commit resulted in the
> corresponding revision number): 10 29 48
>
> When I do an update that gives me foo.cpp at revision 48, are you saying
> that it will diff the changes between 29 and 48 in the top-left pane? If
> this is so, why am I seeing changes that should only be showing up when I
> diff between 10 & 29?
>

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Received on 2008-07-26 20:54:32 CEST

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