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Re: CVS bashing?


From: Paul Sander
Subject: Re: CVS bashing?
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 01:18:14 -0700

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>On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 06:06:22PM -0700, Paul Sander wrote:
>> - If a branch is merged multiple times to an ancestor, don't count the
>>   result of the prior merge as a conflict.  (Remember, CVS performs a

>As I said in an earlier post, this can be scripted around.

Yes, there is a workaround.  One could argue that solving the problem
by design is a better approach.

>> - Invoke a type-specific merge tool, ideally one of the user's choice.

>Actually, simply "an external tool.  Period" would be sufficient.  Then
>said external tool can have whatever intelligence it wants to determine
>filetype and such.  No need to push that into CVS.

It's possible to use a mechanism like a magic file (or any other approach)
to reach arbitrary levels of success to determinine a file's type.  But
a general solution is to embed the file type (as specified by the user when
he uses "cvs add") in the CVS metadata and register a merge tool associated
with it.  Type managers offer other advantages as well, but this is the most
obvious.

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