RE: Merge Reintegrate conflicted Excel files?

> I'm trying to do a merge reintegrate and most of it is working OK. However, I have some Excel files in there that I have under svn. I made changes to them in my branch. Some of them are merging OK but others are giving messages like:
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> Conflicted: C:\Documents and Settings\bri7744\My Documents\CLOC_Remedy_RCIP\7083\bin\Templates\7083 Exec NTF.xls
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> My questions:
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> 1. Does TSVN treat Excel as binary or text?
> 2. If binary, what does it mean for it to be conflicted?
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> => Excel files are binary
> => conflicted means that at least some of the 1s and 0s changed differently in both the branch and trunk
> => it's nearly impossible to have the machines handle this automatically and is very error prone and best handled doing a manual copy of conflicted items into your final file
> => good luck
>

Ok, I get it I think. This leads to another question:

I want to do a reintegrate excluding my excel files directory, but the depth field is greyed out. How can I do the reintegrate and ignore that directory?

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Received on 2012-03-21 21:14:19 CET