[fossil-users] Strange merge conflicts.

2011-03-04 Thread John Found
Several times when making merge with fossil, I ended up with really strange conflicts like this: BEGIN MERGE CONFLICT: original content first include '%TargetOS%/mouse.asm'=== original content above; conflict below = include '%TargetOS%/mouse.asm' END MERGE CONFLICT: conflict

Re: [fossil-users] Strange merge conflicts.

2011-03-04 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 06:18:11PM +0200, John Found wrote: Several times when making merge with fossil, I ended up with really strange conflicts like this: BEGIN MERGE CONFLICT: original content first include '%TargetOS%/mouse.asm'=== original content above; conflict below

Re: [fossil-users] Strange merge conflicts.

2011-03-04 Thread Richard Hipp
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 11:18 AM, John Found johnfo...@evrocom.net wrote: Several times when making merge with fossil, I ended up with really strange conflicts like this: BEGIN MERGE CONFLICT: original content first include '%TargetOS%/mouse.asm'=== original content above; conflict

Re: [fossil-users] Strange merge conflicts.

2011-03-04 Thread John Found
@lists.fossil-scm.org) From: Lluís Batlle i Rossell (virik...@gmail.com) Subject: Re: [fossil-users] Strange merge conflicts. Date: 4.3.2011 18:19:25 On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 06:18:11PM +0200, John Found wrote: Several times when making merge with fossil, I ended up with really strange conflicts like

Re: [fossil-users] Strange merge conflicts.

2011-03-04 Thread Richard Hipp
@lists.fossil-scm.org) From: Lluís Batlle i Rossell (virik...@gmail.com) Subject: Re: [fossil-users] Strange merge conflicts. Date: 4.3.2011 18:19:25 On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 06:18:11PM +0200, John Found wrote: Several times when making merge with fossil, I ended up with really strange conflicts like

Re: [fossil-users] Strange merge conflicts.

2011-03-04 Thread John Found
...@sqlite.org) Subject: Re: [fossil-users] Strange merge conflicts. Date: 4.3.2011 18:23:12 On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 11:18 AM, John Found johnfo...@evrocom.net wrote: Several times when making merge with fossil, I ended up with really strange conflicts like this: BEGIN MERGE CONFLICT: original

Re: [fossil-users] Strange merge conflicts.

2011-03-04 Thread Will West
I'd go further, and say that the same change happening separately in two branches is a conflict. Given initial content a b For feature foo Bob changes it to a c b for feature bar Tom changes it to a c b When you want a branch with both features foo and bar, there isn't a reasonable way for

Re: [fossil-users] Strange merge conflicts.

2011-03-04 Thread John Found
-- Original Message -- Opinions on this vary. Fossil used to ignore whitespace at the ends of lines when merging. But I changed this just the other day in response to a complaint: http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/ci/1d93222627 So, Fossil treats CR($0d) and LF($0a) as a

Re: [fossil-users] Strange merge conflicts.

2011-03-04 Thread Ramon Ribó
I do not agree here. Of course, the solution is: a c b It follows the principle of least surprise. If you want to make very strange things with merges, do not use a tool with automatic merge. Do it manually. Also, the merge of two equal lines, one with unix line end and the other with Windows

Re: [fossil-users] Strange merge conflicts.

2011-03-04 Thread John Found
: [fossil-users] Strange merge conflicts. Date: 4.3.2011 18:23:12 On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 11:18 AM, John Found johnfo...@evrocom.net wrote: Several times when making merge with fossil, I ended up with really strange conflicts like this: BEGIN MERGE CONFLICT: original content first include