On Jul 10, 2006, at 7:18 AM, Nick Thompson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The internal svn diff3 algorithm seems to be as good as any external
> tool I've ever tried, so I would like to make the most use of it. On
> the other hand, when conflicts are detected, I'm left high and dry
> and have to call a merge resolution tool myself, or edit the
> conflicted file with a text editor.
>
> For convenience, it would be handy to allow svn to resolve everything
> itself normally, but when a conflict is detected, then fall back to
> the --diff3-cmd external tool. This would smooth my work flow, while
> making the most of svn. This latter part is important, as I don't
> want to have to assess the quality of an external tool to do
> automatic merging before letting it silently merge files I might not
> look so closely at. When there are conflicts, of course, I'm already
> looking closely.
>
> Ideally, this setting would make it into the config file as well.
>
> Any opinions?
Me too! Me too!
Or, in developer parlance, +1. :-)
I find myself wishing I had this functionality at least once a week.
stephen
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Received on Wed Jul 12 09:48:23 2006