[darcs-users] Multiple **** conflict markers

Thomas Zander zander at kde.org
Thu Sep 29 13:02:04 UTC 2005


On Wednesday 28 September 2005 19:29, Albert Reiner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> not a problem, I'm just trying to understand darcs a little better
> (using 1.0.3 (release)).

>     v v v v v v v
>     foobar
>     ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
>
> (with only 2^0 versions) when the conflicting patches agree that
> "foobar" is correct.

More correctly; both changed it to the same text.
This may seem to be telling the same thing; but if you have two people 
that changed "Version=40" to Version="41"  changes are that the correct 
resolution of the conflict is to set it to 42.

> A couple of hours ago, however, a pull just resulted in a first for
> me: multiple **** markers (with 2^2 different versions):
>
>     $ egrep 'v v v|\*\*\*|\^ \^ \^' nw/ar-soft-scoza.nw
>     v v v v v v v
>     *************
>     *************
>     *************
>     ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
>     ...
>
> My interpretation (which seems to be consistent with the versions in
> the file) is that there must be two pairs of conflicting patches
> affecting overlapping sets of lines, and the four versions are
> basically the direct product of all possibilities of reconciling those
> patches.  Is that correct?

AFAIK Yes.

> Anyway, at first I was a bit worried when pulling took longer than
> usual; and then I was very much delighted at the result darcs produced.
> Thanks for a great tool!

-- 
Thomas Zander
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