[Svnmerge] Bugs when merging revisions that modify and deletefiles

[Jack Repenning]

On Jan 10, 2007, at 10:22 AM, Giovanni Bajo wrote:

> I meant "I'm not sure *I* understand" of course :)

Could go either way! ;-)

> I'm not sure you understand. Are you suggesting to keep a bug  
> because having a bug make the users more comfortable with the tool? :)

Well ... I wouldn't have put it that way ...

> Is there something *really* risky about using "svn merge --force"?  
> I can't think of any, especially for clean working copies (like  
> those required by svnmerge.py to operate).


Well, "especially for clean wc's" is of course an added assumption,  
something additional that the users would have to learn, and hence a  
source of surprises for the uninitiated.

The risk is that the behavior with "--force" is silent, while the  
behavior without it does announce itself.  Some people really *want*  
to review the output line-by-line, and they want that easy-to-miss  
"skipping" message because the no-message-at-all case is even easier  
to "miss."

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