Strange conflicts as a result of merging a branch into the main trunk

2001-02-15 Thread Jacob Burckhardt
Reinstein, Shlomo writes: > Hi, > > I have encountered merge conflicts that are very strange to me: > At some point during the development of a project, we created a branch from > the main trunk. A lot of work was done in that branch, but ever since the > branch was created, NO work was done on m

Strange conflicts as a result of merging a branch into the main trunk

2001-02-20 Thread Jacob Burckhardt
Jacob Burckhardt writes: > Reinstein, Shlomo writes: ... > > Since no work was done on the main trunk since the creation of the branch, > > I'd expect CVS to just update the working directory with the newest version > > of the branch. (which would be the result of mergi

Merge conflict?

2001-03-30 Thread Jacob Burckhardt
Tristan Juricek writes: > I'm getting a merge conflict when merging files that only have lines > deleted from the branch to the main repository. > > Essentially what's happening is that we have a build system here that > automatically creates user branches for doing work. One of the users > mad

Merge conflict?

2001-04-04 Thread Jacob Burckhardt
Jacob Burckhardt writes: > Tristan Juricek writes: > > I'm getting a merge conflict when merging files that only have lines > > deleted from the branch to the main repository. ... > > > > I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this behavior. > >

Unexpected merge conflict - bug maybe?

2001-05-01 Thread Jacob Burckhardt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I would appreciate help understanding how the merge conflict > that I am about to describe can logically happen. (I am > using cvs 1.11). ... > I got a > merge conflict on a file that had never been modified on > SUB_BRANCH. I checked the history of the file on BRAN

RE: The Attic

2001-05-15 Thread Jacob Burckhardt
Thomas Soumarmon writes: > > Juanjo, > > when you add a file directly into a branch it is not added into the main > trunk. In the main trunk it appears like a deleted file (in the attic). > > When you merge your branch to the main trunk you have to add those files. Adding at that point is unne

merge issues

2001-05-15 Thread Jacob Burckhardt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > We are using CVS version 1.10 running on Solaris 2.8. > A 'problem' occured when CVS merged a file multiple users had checked out and > altered. ... > Please help. Our understanding of CVS's merge function should have caught these > differences. Is our understandin

CVS: merge problem?

2001-10-03 Thread Jacob Burckhardt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Problem: > > A file from the trunk had lines of code removed. > > After doing the sync, I had expected to see the lines of code move in the > target file but they stayed put. > > Based upon my simple understanding of how the merge works can anyone > explain what may

Re: merge losing changes, no Conflict

2001-12-07 Thread Jacob Burckhardt
Larry Jones writes: > Dave Thorn writes: > > > > However, several times recently I have found code to mysteriously > > stop working (investigation suggests this is after someone else > > commits changes to the file), not through compile errors, but logic, > > and when I look, the changes I made r

should I be able to create a conflict with this setup?

2000-11-09 Thread Jacob Burckhardt
John Klassa writes: > > ... > > Oddly, I had one file with several conflicts in it, some > large. This made absolutely no sense to me. The trunk and the dev > branch are identical right after a merge, and the dev branch only has so > much done to it before I go ahead and merge down to the trunk,