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RE: Re: Force conflict on any changes to same file?

From: Michael Swanson <mswanson_at_ruralins.com>
Date: 2006-05-08 23:44:27 CEST

>From: Ryan Schmidt [mailto:subversion-2006q2@ryandesign.com]
>
>On May 5, 2006, at 16:10, Michael Swanson wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know if there is a setting somewhere in subversion that
>> allows you to define how close changes have to be to one another
>> before
>> subversion will detect them as a conflict? I would like to make
>> subversion throw a conflict on any file if its been changed
>by someone
>> else since my last checkout. Is this something I could do in a hook
>> script? It seems to me that this would be difficult, because as I
>> understand it, hook scripts can only force an entire commit to simply

>> fail, not actually change what subversion sends back to the client.
>> I've looked in the list archives and in the SVNBook and haven't found

>> anything related to this. Thanks for any help you might be able to
>> give.
>
>I believe you can either give the file a non-text MIME type (such as
>"application/octet-stream"), or you can specify something like "/bin/
>false" as the diff program, and Subversion will then always perceive
>a conflict.
>

Is this a change you would make on the server or on the local side? I'm
not exactly sure where subversion performs this operation, locally or
remotely? Thanks.

Mike Swanson

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