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Re: What causes a conflict question

From: Daniel Davenport <daniel_at_shockoe.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:29:48 -0500

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Jeff <jschneider_at_clrexec.com> wrote:
> I'm sorry, I don't see this in the documentation or a prior post
>
> Say you have a file in the trunk with these 2 lines
>
> aa
> bb
>
> Developers Y and Z create new, separate branches from this.
>
> While developer Z is still working in their branch, developer Y commits the file into the trunk.  it is now:
>
> aa qqqq
> bb
>
> Later, developer Z commits this file to the branch
>
> aa
> bb
> cc
>
> As I'm experiencing, the "qqqq" will be gone upon developer Z's commit.  Despite the fact that developer Z never knew of the existence of the "qqqq" (nor deleted it),  there is no conflict when developer Z makes a commit.  It is the responsible of developer Z to ensure that they're not overwriting any thing that was committed to the file after the branch was created

When developer Z tries to commit, they'll get a message that their
file is out of date, and they'll have to update in order to commit.
When they update, developer Y's changes will be merged in, and the
file will have both sets of changes.

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