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RE: svn does not seem able to merge

From: Merlin Moncure <merlin.moncure_at_rcsonline.com>
Date: 2004-08-17 22:20:02 CEST

Ben wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 14:36, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> > Hello, I am new to this list. I just recently converted our
repository
> > from cvs to svn with great success. Everything was relatively
painless,
> > except for the following:
> >
> > Note: We are running svn 1.0 on winxp server with winxp clients.
Client
> > tool is tortoisesvn. Server is running stock except fireaeomon to
make
> > it as a service.
> >
> > Every time one of the developers updates a file that both he and
another
> > developer has edited, instead of the changes being merged the whole
file
> > is marked as a conflict.
> >
> > In short, svn does not seem to be merging the files together under
any
> > circumstances. Has anybody else experienced this?
>
> Are the files marked with svn:mime-type properties that signify
> "binaryness"? Like, 'svn:mime-type=application/x-octet-stream'? If
so,
> the svn client will never attempt to do contextual merges on the file.

Nope. One possibility: svn seems to be converting my text files to
unix-style line endings. Our text editor is converting them
back...would this cause a conflict?

Corollary: is it possible to suppress conversion of text files to unix
style line endings?

Merlin

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