how about marking the files in the folder structure which have newer
versions?

the same way as with local changes, just the other way around? so you
would have a visual clue that which files will change on an update

On May 11, 11:22 pm, Quinn Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
> This certainly would be a nice feature. Unfortunately, I don't believe  
> that even Subversion itself actually provides this behavior  
> completely. When you run `svn status` in Terminal, the 8th column (if  
> you specify -u or --show-updates) shows whether "a newer revision  
> exists on the server", but nothing about whether the newer version  
> will conflict with the local version. I've had plenty of times when I  
> updated my working copy only to realize that the update caused a slew  
> of conflicts that I now have to sort through.
>
> As annoying as the problem is, I'm not sure exactly how the feature  
> would help. Even if you know an update will cause a conflict, you  
> still can't commit until you update and resolve the conflict one way  
> or another. Remember that, even when a conflict occurs and Subversion  
> creates the 3 extra files to help sort out the conflict, your latest  
> local version is saved in the *.mine file. You can always update back  
> to the previous base version if desired, and just wait to update that  
> file until later.
>
> Wish there was an easier solution, but I think it's just the nature of  
> the beast...
>
>   - Quinn
>
> On May 11, 2009, at 2:13 PM, Marijn wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi everybody,
>
> > I guess we all have this once in a while. Accidentally hitting update
> > to fetch some updates from the remote server but forgetting that there
> > are conflicts. This can really be annoying if you are in the process
> > of finishing something. I would really like it if Versions somehow
> > warned me if there is the possibility of conflicts between the remote
> > and client copy.
>
> > Thanks,
>
> > Marijn
>
>
>
>  smime.p7s
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