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Tony Hoyle wrote: >> I think part of the question was why cvsnt doesn't mark them as conflict >> files. It seems to me to be a conflict situation (that is, "merge required >> but not possible"). > > It's not a conflict because the sandbox file has not been modified. In the > case where the sandbox file *has* been modified you get the 'non mergable file > needs merge' message. > > Binary files are handled by updating to the new version and keeping a copy of > the old one. I agree with the latter, but not quite with the former. While it is not a merge conflict inside the file (it has been copied, not modified), it is something like a "logical merge conflict" in the sense that a proper merge couldn't be performed. I guess it depends on whether you think of a merge conflict marker as saying "this file is messed up" (that's how it is) or as saying "I couldn't merge this file properly, and someone has to have a look at it" (that's how it also may make sense). In any case, a conflict mark would be helpful. I'll think about adding a flag to update (like Arthur suggested). Gerhard