[cvsnt] Re: $Log$ conflict

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Sun Aug 17 22:43:40 BST 2003


Glen Starrett wrote:

>> >I'm having a problem with a conflict after cvs merge (after update)
>> >in the $Log$ section. Local file's log looks as follows:
> 
> I think it's normal to get conflicts in those sections... Is it?????
> It does seem like CVSNT should be smart enough not to flag it as a
> conflict.
> 
It can't, really... $Log$ is special, in that it doesn't just expand to a
token, it start appending to a list - which means the file is actually
changing as it is committed...  We avoid conflicts in things like $Id$
(mostly) but unfortunately it's not possible with $Log$.

Tony



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