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Re: SVN suggestion: addition of a manual merge operation

From: Max Bowsher <maxb_at_ukf.net>
Date: 2005-01-28 10:25:23 CET

John Dubery wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A facility I've used in other version control systems and have missed on a
> couple of occasions in SVN is a "manual merge" (for want of a better
> term).
>
> The SVN merge attempts to do as much as sensibly possible automatically,
> and
> require the user simply to resolve conflicts - good stuff.
>
> In addition to this, I'd appreciate a "manual merge" that ...
> * for files with no differences: leave unchanged as now
> * for files with differences (even if trivial): behave as for "conflicted"
> files in the present merge operation
>
> A anticipate that this would be easy to code - it's in effect a subset of
> the
> existing merge operation
>
> Why - occasionally I have found a need to review all changes being merged
> in;
> one example of this is where there is an unexpected dependency between two
> sets of changes being merged into a trunk; another is an unexpected name
> clash.

Try

"svn merge --diff3-cmd /bin/false"

Max.

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