Re: Merge issue with deleted files

[Larry Jones]

Cristian writes:
> 
> As I mentioned before, what gets me is the different behaviour of CVS
> with regards to using one -j vs two -j's.

That's completely intentional.  One -j merges two branches with a common
ancestor, so CVS considers all the changes along both branches.  Two
-j's applies one set of changes to a specific revision -- there's only
one set of changes, so there's nothing to conflict.  Remember: with two
-j's, the set of changes can be completely disjoint from the revision
you're applying them to; what changes would you want CVS to consider? 
In your case, there just happens to be an obvious choice, but what if
you were applying the changes between 1.3.6.5 and 1.3.6.7 to 1.14.8.7 --
would you really want to go back to the common ancestor at 1.3?
-- 
Larry Jones

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