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Re: Problem committing .doc files

From: T. Wassermann <mail_at_tobias-wassermann.de>
Date: 2007-08-29 10:44:01 CEST

Hi,

nothing to the topic - but Glen, can you check your system date and this
of your mailserver?

By now it's 08/29/2007 9:43 UTC - your last mail is timestamped with
08/30/2007 10:18. Writing from the future, eh? ;)

Bye

Tobias

Glen Barber schrieb:
> Quoting Glen Barber:
>
>> Quoting Mark Reibert:
>>
>>> On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 00:25 -0400, Glen Barber wrote:
>>>
>>>> When I edit a .doc file using MS Word 2003, on occasion I get the error
>>>> stating my "working copy may be out-of-date." This message repeats even
>>>> after I 'svn up' and try to re-commit. The only 2 solutions I have
>>>> found are:
>>>>
>>> If you have edited the (non-text-mergeable, aka binary) file then 'svn
>>> up' will simply leave you with a merge conflict that must be manually
>>> resolved. After doing so you should be able to commit. See:
>>>
>>> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.branchmerge.copychanges.html#svn.branchmerge.copychanges.bestprac.merge
>>>
>>> Note this has nothing to do with a .doc file, per se, but rather it is a
>>> situation that will result from simultaneous edits on a file that cannot
>>> be textually merged. Your best bet is to avoid this situation via locks
>>> and the svn:needs-lock property. See:
>>>
>>> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.advanced.locking.html#svn.advanced.locking.lock-communication
>>>
>>>
>> I (sort of) see what you're saying. I'll take a look at both docs, and
>> appreciate your quick response.
>>
>>
> Actually -- neither of those docs helped... I created locks for the
> files, not realizing at first what I was doing (it's late, and i'm tired
> :P ). I am the only editor of those files... I edit from 1 of 2
> operating systems, Linux (Ubuntu Feisty, specifically, and Windows XP
> Home). Creating locks created more problems (that I can tell).
>
> Any other ideas?
>

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