doc/hgmerge.1.txt
author Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:33:12 -0500
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merge: do early copy to deal with issue636 Without copies/renames, merges source names are 1:1 with their targets. Copies and renames introduce the possibility that there will be two merges with the same input but different output. By doing the copy to the destination name before the merge, the actual merge becomes 1:1 again, and no source is the input to two different merges. - add a preliminary scan to applyupdates to do copies - for the merge action, pass the old name (for finding ancestors) and the new name (for input to the merge) to filemerge - eliminate the old post-merge copy - lookup file contents from new name in filemerge - pass new name to external merge helper - report merge failure at new name - add a test
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HGMERGE(1)
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==========
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Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
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v0.1, 27 May 2005
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NAME
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hgmerge - default wrapper to merge files in Mercurial SCM system
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SYNOPSIS
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'hgmerge' local ancestor remote
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DESCRIPTION
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The hgmerge(1) command provides a graphical interface to merge files in the
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Mercurial system. It is a simple wrapper around kdiff3, merge(1) and tkdiff(1),
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or simply diff(1) and patch(1) depending on what is present on the system.
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hgmerge(1) is used by the Mercurial SCM if the environment variable HGMERGE is
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not set.
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AUTHOR
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Written by Vincent Danjean <Vincent.Danjean@free.fr>
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SEE ALSO
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hg(1) - the command line interface to Mercurial SCM
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COPYING
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Copyright \(C) 2005-2007 Matt Mackall.
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Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General
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Public License (GPL).