Merge Conflit Incoming Delete, Local Edit on Merge

I am doing a merge and the following condition occurs. Here are the docs for this:

4.6.3.5. Local edit, incoming delete upon merge

1. Developer A working on trunk moves Foo.c to Bar.c and commits it to the repository.
2. Developer B working on a branch modifies Foo.c and commits it to the repository.

There is an equivalent case for folder moves, but it is not yet detected in Subversion 1.6 ...

1. Developer A working on trunk moves parent folder FooFolder to BarFolder and commits it to the repository.
2. Developer B working on a branch modifies Foo.c in her working copy.
A merge of developer A's trunk changes to developer B's branch working copy results in a tree conflict:
. Bar.c is marked as added.
. Foo.c is marked as modified with a tree conflict.

Developer B now has to decide whether to go with developer A's reorganisation and merge her changes into the corresponding file in the new structure, or simply revert A's changes and keep the local file.

To merge her local changes with the reshuffle, Developer B must first find out to what filename the conflicted file Foo.c was renamed/moved in the repository. This can be done by using the log dialog for the merge source. The conflict editor only shows the log for the working copy as it does not know which path was used in the merge, so you will have to find that yourself. The changes must then be merged by hand as there is currently no way to automate or even simplify this process. Once the changes have been ported across, the conflicted path is redundant and can be deleted. In this case use the Remove button in the conflict editor dialog to clean up and mark the conflict as resolved.

If Developer B decides that A's changes were wrong then she must choose the Keep button in the conflict editor dialog. This marks the conflicted file/folder as resolved, but Developer A's changes need to be removed by hand. Again the log dialog for the merge source helps to track down what was moved.

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The help seems to talk about a move rather than an edit not a delete.

I am in the check for modifications dialog and the conflict is listed with a status of normal, tree conflict. Ok fine. I know why this is a conflict, because the incoming merge deletes this file that was editing in the target path. The doc seems to imply that the edit conflicts dialog will have a "remove" button. There is no such button... There is only "Accept current working copy state (mark as resolved)", "Resolve Later", "Show Log", "Show Branch Log".

So, I'm not sure what action I need to take from the CFM dialog to tell TSVN that the correct action is to delete the file which is what the incoming merge was. If I select "Resolved"... it appears that the local working copy file stays in place. This is what I have done, then going back to the working copy and TSVN -> Deleting it? Is this correct? It seems there should be an action I can take in the CFM or Merge dialog to confirm the delete is the correct status?

I am using TSVN 1.8.2.

Thanks,
BOb

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Received on 2013-09-17 19:41:49 CEST