Re: [Kdiff3-user] Request to make a change in functionality an option

[David K. <dk...@sy...>]

Upon review, I think what a merge program should do in this case is at best undefined.   For some people performing the merge is correct and for others performing the copy is correct.  That is why I was requesting an option setting.  Also for us, performing a manual per-file operation is not practical, as we may have 100's of modules in this same mode.

As of right now, this is not a big issue, as we have changed our internals processing to better handle this situation.

From: Joachim Eibl [mailto:joa...@gm...]
Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 7:47 AM
To: kdi...@li...
Subject: Re: [Kdiff3-user] Request to make a change in functionality an option

Hi David,



> Version 0.9.94 - 2009/01/17
> ===========================
> - Directory merge: Default op for change in either B or C and delete in the
> other is now merge (previously copy).
>
> This has turned out to be an issue for one of our processes, as we were
> relying on the copy function in this case. Can this change in
> functionality be made into a controllable option?



I see.



I tried to solve this issue:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2017308&group_id=58666&atid=488548



Obviously I underestimated possible problems.



Would it improve the situation, if KDiff3 would set an error for such a file, so that when the user starts the merge then she/he will be warned and the merge would not start until the user specified what operation would be preferred?



Only if this is not sufficient, then I could also add an option.



Joachim
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