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Re: Disabling overwriting of existing files in wc on update

From: Josh Reynolds <josh.reynolds_at_eku.edu>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 07:58:04 -0400

On 8/30/2012 3:16 AM, Markus Humm wrote:
> Hello,
>
> now that we start to really use SVN some colleagues demanded yesterday that a update should never simply overwrite any already existing file in the working copy. In such a case it should (as can be configured for file conflicts already) show this as a conflict which has to be manually resolved.
>
> Can this be done and how?
>
> Note that these colleagues are not only new to VCS systems but they're also just starting now with projects where more than one person works on the same set of files.
>
> Greetings
>
> Markus
>

Just teach them to make good use of check for modifications. Click the
"check repository" button to see exactly what is about to be overwritten
before doing an update, the remote text status column shows that. You
can also highlight only certain items, and right click to update only
those, leaving the rest of your working copy intact.

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