"Miller, Eric" <Eric.Miller@amd.com> writes:
>> On 9/11/07, Miller, Eric <Eric.Miller@amd.com> wrote:
>> > Does anyone know if there is a way to specify a merge script for
> binary
>> > files? The --diff3-cmd switch only seems to work on text files.
>
>> You cant merge binary files. You must pick either 1. yours, 2. the
>> one from the repo, or 3. halt, rewrite your binary, then recommit.
>
> You mean "can't" as in "Subversion has no way to let you" or "can't" as
> in "binary files are intrinsically unmergable"?
>
> Cuz I have some binary files I can, and would like to, merge.
>
> Ex:
> Say (for whatever reason) I must maintain binary files.
> Lets just say that some 3rd party tool reads and writes these.
> But it is possible for me to create a diff script that can uncompress,
> merge the text and then rewrite the binary.
> Heck, pretend it is just a gzip'd text file and you have a good example.
>
> So in the case of a gzip it would be gzip -d => diff3 => gzip. But how
> do I tell subversion to use my special diff command for these binary
> files?
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2447
I.e., we agree, it's a bug.
-Karl
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Received on Wed Sep 12 01:07:06 2007