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Re: conflict: strange conflict marking

From: Jan Hendrik <jan.hendrik_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: 2004-05-11 17:05:02 CEST

Concerning Re: conflict: strange conflict mark
kfogel@collab.net wrote on 10 May 2004, 13:35, at least in part:

> I think what's going on is that the principle of 'diff3' is to show a
> comparison between the two different final states, *not* between the
> two different changes. The other person changed two paragraphs, but
> the final state of their region still included that other paragraph
> that you deleted. Since that's what the file looked like for them at
> the time, that's what merge shows.

Not exactly, Karl. Say there are paragraphs 1-5. A deletes #2, B
modifies #4, the other paragraphs are not modified:

paragraph 1
paragraph 2 --> deleted by A
paragraph 3 --> not modified at all
paragraph 4 --> modified & committed by B
paragraph 5

Now that's what the merged file looked like after I updated:

paragraph 1
<<<<<.mine
=====
paragraph 2 (not modified by B, but deleted by A)
paragraph 3 (not modified at all)
paragraph 4 (modified by B)
>>>>>.rxxx
paragraph 5

where I would have expected that SVN sees that one change is
before paragraph 3 (the deletion of #2), and the other change is
after paragraph 3 (the modification of #4), thus no conflict. As said
to Ben it is a pity I first did my work and resolved the conflict and
thought of posting only hours later ...

Jan Hendrik

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