[cvsnt] Re: Mergepoints & Binary files

Harrison, Andrew andy.harrison at anite.com
Fri Jun 4 16:15:37 BST 2004


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> From: Tony Hoyle [mailto:tmh at nodomain.org]
> 
> For a binary file a merge is always a conflict.  In practice this
> means that if the version in the sandbox is different from the latest
> version then you will conflict.
> 
> There is no branchpoint/mergepoint logic involved with a binary file
> as it's never needed.
> 

Yes, I understand that any merge on a binary file is a conflict, but what
I'm trying to show is that there are some points where a binary file does
not need to merge because it has previously been merged (by the user, not by
CVS). CVS can detect this by looking the mergepoints and so avoid the
conflicts.

Regards,
Andy

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