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Re: [Merge] Merge Question - Use local and Use repository

From: Simon Large <simon.tortoisesvn_at_googlemail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:07:51 +0100

On 25 June 2010 12:22, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24.06.2010 10:23, Simon Large wrote:
>> On 24 June 2010 07:42, Stefan Küng<tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> On 24.06.2010 00:00, Simon Large wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am now looking at the docs for this, but I think my explanation may
>>>> also be wrong and I have got completely confused. If you merge several
>>>> ranges of revisions I believe the merge is done in chunks, one for
>>>> each unbroken range. So if the conflict happens on the second range
>>>> the first range has already been merged.
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>>
>>>> If at this point I select 'Use local', am I selecting the whole file
>>>> in the WC as it was when the merge started, after the first range
>>>> completed and before the second range started, or do I just select the
>>>> 'mine' section between any conflict markers, leaving all successfully
>>>> merged sections in place?
>>>
>>> You select the 'mine' section for this merge range.
>>> That's why you can get several of those dialogs for the same merge: once
>>> for each range that leads to conflicts.
>>
>> Just to clarify, here is an example: merge 1-3, 7-8.  Assume 1-3
>> merges cleanly, 7-8 has 3 sections which merge OK and one section with
>> conflicts. If I select 'Use local' I get the complete merge of 1-3,
>> the successful 3 chunks in 7-8 and the 'mine' sections of the
>> conflicts in 7-8. And if I choose 'Use repository' I get the same, but
>> instead using the 'theirs' section of the conflicts. Is that correct?
>
> Yes.

Thanks. I have updated the docs to clarify this a little.

Simon

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