On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Garrett Rooney wrote:
> John McClement wrote:
> > I am evaluating subversion and am tring to understand one feature. I
> > understand that when 2 different users checkout a file and both make
> > changes, then subversion will merge these by default. I understand that the
> > changes are committed to the repository, and only flag a conflict if changes
> > have been made by both users in the same line of the file.
> >
> > However, in my situation, I would never want merging of files to occur. I
> > would always want a conflict to be flagged.
> >
> > Is this possible in Subversion? If so:
> >
> > 1. how do I configure it for this?
> > 2. Can one repository on a server be configured for merging to be on, and
> > another for it to be off?
>
> You can set this up, but it's client side, not per-repository (yes, we
> agree that it would be nice to be able to configure things on a
> per-repository basis, but right now you can't). Just set the users
> diff3-cmd to something that always fails without doing anything
> (/bin/false comes to mind). This can be either set on the command line
> (the --diff3-cmd option) or in the users ~/.subversion/config file (the
> diff3-cmd in the [helpers] group).
Or, if appropriate, you can set the 'svn:mime-type' property on the files
concerned to a format that svn won't recognise as text. That way you don't
have to change the configuration of each client. (And you can use
auto-props to add the properties to new files...).
(Perhaps there should be an 'svn:merge-method' property, to allow
fine-tuning of the way merging is performed, in a platform-independent way
- eg it could contain "text" to use the usual text-based merge (even on
files with apparently binary mimetypes); "none" to report a conflict in
all cases; "foo" to run "foo.sh" on Unix or "foo.bat" on Windows, etc...)
Just a thought...
Patrick
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