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Re: [Monotone-devel] usage question


From: Arthur A. Gleckler
Subject: Re: [Monotone-devel] usage question
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:46:39 -0800

On Feb 13, 2007, at 12:35 AM, Jack Cummings wrote:

Right now the problem is that monotone thinks you are trying to merge two completely different files that happen to have the same name. This probably
isn't what you want.

What you want to do is merge the content of two files. One way to do that is to synthesize some ancestry for the files you want to merge. It doesn't need to be much, you just need to tell monotone that the two files are descended from the same ancestor. When monotone knows you are trying merge files with a common
ancestor, then it will try to merge their contents.

Here's how you'd do that:

Thanks for the detailed instructions. Alas, I've already committed one machine's version of the files, so I won't be able to use the common-ancestry approach. Instead, I'll just check out what I've committed, copy the new files on top, and merge before committing.




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