Re: CVS Merge Algorithm

[Noel L Yap]

AFAIK, CVS uses diff3.  For example, when merging two versions, it just:
(
     diff3 -E to_version ancestor from_version;
     echo w;
     echo q;
) | ed - to_version

I may have gotten some details mixed up, so experiment.

Noel




address@hidden on 2000.10.13 19:14:08

To:   address@hidden
cc:   (bcc: Noel L Yap)
Subject:  CVS Merge Algorithm




Hey all..I'm sure this is in a FAQ somewhere because I thought I saw it
once. I'm trying to enlighten my team about the ways of CVS and when I said
it can automatically merge code alarm bells went off all around. I'm sure
many of you have been through this before ;-) Is there a whitepaper on the
CVS merge algorithm and a statistics page about false positives and error
percentages when using the automatic merge?

Thanks,
Chris

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