Re: svn merge != svn diff | patch

> I seem to misunderstand "svn merge". As per the SVN handbook, svn merge
> computes a diff between the 1st two arguments and applies it to the 3rd.
> This is not what happens according to my experience.

This is the poor-mans explanation of ...

[ snip ]

> That is: svn merge produces conflicts instead of the obvious merge;
> moreover, it is unable to suggest the obvious merge as one of the
> alternatives. In fact, it really seems to try a 3-way merge between f@1,
> f@3 and g (such as kdiff3 does) which is very different from diffing f@1
> and f@3 and applying to g.

This. Exactly: svn merge is a diff3 implementation. (iow: a 3-way merge)

HTH,

Erik.

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Received on Fri Aug 3 22:56:36 2007