RE: resolve conflict dialog is confusing

> I did try a merge; the last error in my previous message was from
> TSVN 1.6.10, Merge two different trees, From:
> http://tortoisesvn.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ HEAD revision, To:
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk HEAD revision. A
> Test merge gives the error:
>
> Error: 'http://tortoisesvn.googlecode.com/svn/trunk' isn't in the
> same repository as
> 'http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk'
>
> If you meant commandline svn, same thing:
>
> % svn merge --dry-run http://tortoisesvn.googlecode.com/svn/trunk
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk
> svn: 'http://tortoisesvn.googlecode.com/svn/trunk' isn't in the
> same repository as
> 'http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk'

Yes, you are correct. I was thinking that "merge from foreign repositories" allowed for comparing paths in two seperate repos. But, alas that's not supported as you found out. Sorry about that rabbit hole.

http://blogs.open.collab.net/svn/2008/03/do-not-post-mer.html

> But in any case, the point remains that even if you could diff
> between two repositories, there's not going to be any conflict at
> the point of the diff. The conflicts occur when the diff is applied
> to your local working copy, so the choices for resolving the
> conflict is to use the changes from the repository diff, use the
> changes from the local working copy, or manually pick and choose.
> "Use repository" is unambiguous.

That I 100% agree with.

BOb

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Received on 2010-09-02 16:50:28 CEST