Re: how to generate the conflict info from a dry run merge?

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Robert P. J. Day
<rpjday_at_crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> (since i have no shame, i'll ask another question that i'm sure has
> a trivial answer.)
>
> using svn 1.4 and working from the command line, i tried a dry-run
> merge and saw all A and U, except for a single file that would cause a
> conflict. how can i (still from the command line) display the conflict info
> represented by trying to merge that file? (if that's even a meaningful
> question.)
>
> obviously, i can "svn cat" and eyeball the files, but i'm guessing there's
> a simpler way to do this, and i still want it to be a "dry run" operation.
> thanks.

You can't. I'd just not use --dry-run in the first place. It
basically does a full merge and just discards the results. So it is
not like it is faster. Just run a merge, look at the results and then
revert.

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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