[cvsnt] Re: BUG when merging and removing files on branches

Kevin zzz at zzz.zzz.org
Mon May 10 07:28:58 BST 2004


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"Tony Hoyle" <tmh at nodomain.org> wrote in message
news:pksm90p7ei63q93tdcr4242ts27ub39o1b at 4ax.com...
> On Fri, 7 May 2004 09:27:50 +0100, "Harrison, Andrew"
> I'm always open to persuasion... however I prefer to err on the side
> of  paranoia.
Sorry to repeat myself,  but can the following be put into code? I cannot
find where such an algorithm can go wrong, altough I am not sure if it
degrades performance.

>>Can CVS check if the file *contents* are identical when doing a merge?
What
>>I mean is that in the scenario described revisions 1.9.6.1 that
corresponds
>>to revision 1.10 (its mergepoint) are identical. Thus CVS can detect that
>>the only changes from 1.10 to 1.11 (file deleted) have occurred on the
trunk
>>and can safely be applied to the branch.


>
> Liked your diagram though...   That just about persuaded me it's doing
> the right thing :)
10x but that is just an imitation of WinCVS graph :-P

-- 
Kevin Agius





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