RE: Merging <TSVN 1.6 VS 1.7>

> Guys
>                  I have created a Branch from my trunk. Made some
> changes, Commit. Now I am going to Merged into Trunk. Let me share
> behavior on TSVN
> Versions:
>
> 1.6.17 > When I merged , Test merged alert me for Conflict.
>
> 1.7.2  > When I merged , Test merged DOES NOT alert me for Conflict.
>
> Why
>
> In 1.7.2 , it just overwrites changes of branch to trunk. Anyone clear
> me on this if I am wrong.

There's really nowhere near enough information to tell you that you are wrong. What type of conflict was it? A file conflict or tree conflict?

Was the 1.7.2 resulting merge correct? There is an --accept parameter on the cli but I doubt that it a default for the TSVN merge.

Did a dialog come up when you did the merge about how to handle conflicts? I usually press "resolve later" so I can go through the conflicts one at a time.

=> also, as noted in the online documentation (http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-dug-merge.html),
"Test Merge ... notes files where conflicts may occur. Because merge tracking makes the merge process a lot more complicated, there is no guaranteed way to find out in advance whether the merge will complete without conflicts, so files marked as conflicted in a test merge may in fact merge without any problem."

=> 1.7 is improved over 1.6, so if the resulting merge is correct in either case, there's nothing to worry about and the test merge in 1.7 is just more thorough in its test-merge vision of potential conflicts.

-Tim

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Received on 2012-04-06 19:00:38 CEST