Re: difference between svn and regular merge?

John Joseph Bachir schreef:

> Is there any difference between how svn merges, and regular command-line
> merge? I've asked some folks about this before, and the answer is
> usually a vague "svn uses the file history data". I don't understand
> what that means... I can't imagine what extra data a program could have
> about the differences between two files. Or is the magic in the
> merging... does it somehow incrementally and therefore more "carefully"
> do the merges into the 3rd file?

I think the difference is mostly in keeping track of changes to trees:
renames, additions of files, removal of files. I don't think there's any
difference of you're just merging the changes in a file.

-- 
If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood
on the shoulders of giants.  -- Isaac Newton
Roel Schroeven
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