[cvsnt] Merging and Binaries

Trevor Leybourne trevor.leybourne at aderant.com
Mon Jun 26 01:21:23 BST 2006


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Small question which hopefully someone can help with, and I cannot seem
to see anything in the documentation relating to this, but what are the
rules when merging from a branch to the head (or in fact between any two
branches) where there are binary objects? 
 
If I have my head branch and I add a binary file to HEAD (-kbx) and then
create a branch, modify the file on the branch (along with some ascii
files as well) and perform a merge, the Binary file will overwrite the
revision in HEAD without giving any errors or conflicts (it does leave
the original as a .# file). I then however cannot commit the file since
I am not a valid editor of the file. 
 
I want to understand what the CVS rules are when merging between
branches when there are binaries involved. 
 
Anyone have any ideas or pointers to any documentation about this, 
 
Cheers
Trevor

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