[cvsnt] Conflicts duering merge shown as modified

Jonathan Keller jhkeller at ucdavis.edu
Fri Sep 13 01:28:55 BST 2002


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This is becoming a problem for us.  There definitely seems to be a 
problem here.  I watch the messages from the merge command closely and 
notice the small "rcsmerge: warning: conflicts during merge"
message in the list.  The control files (in the CVS directory) however, 
do not reflect the conflict state.

Compounding this is that it seems as if CVS does not check for the 
conflict markers unless the current state of the file on the sandbox is 
a conflict.  We have had a number of occasions now where conflicts have 
been checked into CVS.  (Not all of our developers understand CVS well 
enough to notice the conflicts, especially when performing a large update.)

Richard Wirth wrote:

>While merging changes from a vendor branch into the main trunk,
>several files were marked 'conflict' in the log output, but afterwards
>in CVS/Entries thiese files are only marked 'modified'! So WinCVS does
>not show the 'conflict' icon.
>
>What's going wrong???
>
>output from
>cvs -z3 update -d -jV2_30_b22
>....
>RCS file: l:/CVSBASE/aProject/SDK/Windows/Error.h,v
>retrieving revision 1.1
>retrieving revision 1.1.1.2
>Merging differences between 1.1 and 1.1.1.2 into Error.h
>rcsmerge: warning: conflicts during merge
>C SDK/Windows/Error.h
>cvs server: Updating SDK/Windows/Control
>....
>
>contents of CVS/Entries:
>...
>/Window.h/1.1.1.2/Sat Aug 24 21:57:36 2002//
>D/Control////
>/Error.h/1.2/Result of merge//
>....
>
>
>cvs version is 'last night build' (client and server on WIN2k)
>  
>
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>

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Jonathan Keller
Web Application Developer
jhkeller at ucdavis.edu





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