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Re: "multi-part" merge with conflicts does not "bail out with an error message"

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:03:42 -0500

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:00, Brazhnik <brazhnik_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> This issue is very important for me.
>
> Is it a bug or expected behaviour?
>
> If it is a bug I will email to dev_at_subversion.tigris.org

Please don't send bugs directly to that mailing list. It's for the
developers to discuss active development, not review your
possibly-invalid bug report.

Bug reporting guidelines are here: http://subversion.tigris.org/bugs.html

> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Brazhnik <brazhnik_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello.
>>
>> from the section "Advanced Merging," side note regarding doing a merge
>> which has to jump over a single earlier, cherrypicked revision:
>>
>> "Did you notice how, in the last example, the merge invocation caused two
>> distinct ranges of merges to be applied? The svn merge command applied two
>> independent patches to your working copy to skip over changeset 355, which
>> your branch already contained. There's nothing inherently wrong with this,
>> except that it has the potential to make conflict resolution trickier. If
>> the first range of changes creates conflicts, you must resolve them
>> interactively for the merge process to continue and apply the second range
>> of changes. If you postpone a
>> conflict from the first wave of changes, the whole merge command will bail
>> out with an error message."
>>
>> but the svn 1.5.4 continues applying second range of changes if first
>> range of changes creates conflicts and conflict resolution was postponed.
>> It creates in one way files like this:
>> <<<<<<< .working
>> <<<<<<< .working
>> bbbbb
>> =======
>> 22222
>> >>>>>>> .merge-right.r4
>> =======
>> 44444
>> >>>>>>> .merge-right.r6
>>
>> in other way the conflicted file looks like usual (without nested <<<,
>> ===, >>> parts) but It losts some changes.
>>
>> ----
>> brazhnik
>>
>
>

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