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Re: option equivalent to cvs's -n

From: John Peacock <jpeacock_at_rowman.com>
Date: 2004-05-03 17:48:17 CEST

Travis P wrote:

> The useful information that 'cvs -n update' provides but 'svn status -u' does
> not is whether or not a conflict will occur. Knowing whether a conflict will
> occur prior to updating (or switching, the more general case) would be very
> useful. It lets me know how much time I might need to allocate fixing things
> up were I to update/switch. If there's no conflict, no time need be spend
> resolving conflicts.

You might check out svk, which has a smart merge feature including an explicit
check phase:

        http://svk.elixus.org/

It does require a private local repository to mirror the remote repository. See
in particular the Tutorial page for daily usage examples.

HTH

John

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