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RE: Merge Reintegrate conflicted Excel files?

From: Gerald Britton <gerald.britton_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 07:05:07 -0700 (PDT)

> >
> > My questions:
> >
> > 1. Does TSVN treat Excel as binary or text?
> > 2. If binary, what does it mean for it to be conflicted?
> >
> > => 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?
>
> => The easiest option I see if you have all those excel files in an exclusive, Excel-only directory would be to do the default reintegrate svn-merge, choose to resolve all conflicts later, then right click and svn-revert that directory before committing the changes to trunk. Then kill that development branch by making it read-only and note in the log why the Excel files are different.

but I *want* the changes made to the Excel files in the branch to be merged into the trunk. If I do the reintegrate then revert, won't I lose those changes? Or, do I need to just copy my changed Excel files from the dev branch *after* reintegrate/revert on the excel-files-only directory

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