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[Monotone-devel] Re: How to join identical branches?


From: Koen Kooi
Subject: [Monotone-devel] Re: How to join identical branches?
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:23:33 +0100
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Stephen Leake schreef:
| "Nuno Lucas" <address@hidden> writes:
|
|> I have 2 branches with a common ancestor, but during some time they
|> were apart and some renames, drops and adds were made. Now the 2
|> branches are identical because the contents was generalized to
|> accommodate both cases.
|>
|> Because of the renames, add's and drops, propagate fails with "rename
|> target conflict".
|> If both branches are identical how can I resolve the "non-content
|> conflicts"?
|
| In similar situations, the only way I have discovered is to drop the
| conflicting file from the target of the propagate. Then the propagate
| will restore it.
|
| I hope there is a better way.
|
| I'd like to change monotone to offer to merge the conflicting files;
| that would clearly work in this case, and is The Right Thing in the
| cases I have run into as well.
|
| My most common case is when I write a small file on one machine,
| forget to check it in, and then write the same small file on another
| machine. When I finally get both checked in, I get a non-content
| conflict.

It would be nice if monotone would compare the files and if the content
is identical skip the error message and for non-identical files offer to
merge it.

regards,

Koen


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