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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] identical changes conflict
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Peter Conrad |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] identical changes conflict |
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Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:10:28 +0100 |
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Hi,
Am Dienstag, 22. März 2005 16:52 schrieb Deliverable Mail:
> Probably it's not typical in
> common non-automated use, but I wonder what's the reasoning there.
the reasoning is that automated tools cannot tell what's the correct
behaviour.
> In case you don't follow all that mumbo-jumbo with multiple SCMs,
> here's a simple, purely tla case. Create a local repo and mirror it
> in a remote repo. Create a text file in one repo and sync it into
> another. Now do this: add a line to the file in the local repo and
> commit. Then go to the remote, ADD THE SAME LINE MANUALLY BEFORE
> SYNCING, so that the files are now in fact identical in source but not
> as recorded in the auxiliary tla directories. Now tla update --
> you'll get file.orig <=> file, and file.rej showing +<line> in diff.
> If tla were to check that the result of aplying file.rej to the last
> commit would indeed yield the file <=> file.orig, perhaps it might see
> there's no conflict and not bother with it?
But there *is* a conflict. Maybe you *want* the line to be added twice.
How should tla know?
Bye,
Peter
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