On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:32, schellin <schellin_at_xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 18:12:56 +0200, Stefan Küng wrote:
>> On 15.07.2011 09:55, schellin wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> tortoiseSVN supports external merge tools to be used at the file
>>> level
>>> now. However, AFAICS there is no way to kick off an external merge
>>> tool
>>> that takes care of the merge at the tree level.
>>>
>>> The use case for such a tool is tree conflicts: in case of
>>> significant
>>> refactoring, kicking off a stock merge will not work at all (it will
>>> just generate tons of tree conflicts). People have developed
>>> solutions
>>> for this issue (one example is truMerge), but there is no way to run
>>> such a merge tool from tortoiseSVN.
>>>
>>> Would it be possible to create a mechanism (e.g., a hook script or
>>> plugin) to support this?
>>
>> Sorry, but no.
>> truMerge isn't a diff/merge tool as the others, because it actually
>> executes the merge itself (it runs an 'svn merge').
>> Supporting such tools just isn't possible in a generic way.
>
> Hi Stefan,
>
> can you indicate where you see the issues? The interfaces are complex,
> and I agree that tSVN cannot just support anything, but wouldn't it be
> possible to standardize on the interfaces of "svn merge"?
>
> The interfaces that I see are:
> 1. Commandline: svn merge's command line is a de facto standard, and
> tsvn
> should be able to construct such a commandline from the options
> selected
> in the UI
Sure, it could do that.
But TSVN does not use the command line client at all, and never will.
So what's the point?
> 2. Interactive conflict resolution editing: This could be handled by
> the
> plugin, no UI support required from tsvn
> 3. Output + error reporting: Report the output of the merge tool in a
> window as it is done now, and check for return code.
TSVN uses the svn library, not the svn command line client. It's not
just as easy as calling a different exe for the command.
So again: no, I won't implement this.
* too specialized (I bet not even 0.1% of all users would use this)
* would clutter UI
* user experience would be much, much worse than with the real merge
command (parsing output to stdout, no fine grained error reporting,
...)
* ...
Stefan
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