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merge losing changes, no Conflict


From: Dave Thorn
Subject: merge losing changes, no Conflict
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 14:46:03 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.2.5i

hi, I had a look in a couple of books and around the web but can't
find this problem mentioned.

The merge process was explained to me as this:

when cvs update finds that you've modified a file it was going to 
update, it saves your modified version under a .# name, then 
merges your changes with the repository changes and puts the
resulting merged file into your working directory in place of 
your old modified file.


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 recently have gone.  There were
a few .# files hanging around in the directory, which contained my
changes, but the cvs update did *not* report a Conflict, which I
understand and can easily deal with.  The changes don't even appear
to have been at similar places within the file, so I don't
understand why there are problems.  Is this expected behaviour?

system: i686, debian linux (testing), kernel 2.4.9

thanks for any help,

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dave thorn | address@hidden



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