Basic Usage
strings of text that delimit the “sides” of the conflict—into the file to visibly demonstrate the overlapping areas. (Subversion uses the svn:mime-type property to decide whether a file is capable of contextual, line-based merging. See the section called “File Content Type” to learn more.) • For every conflicted file, Subversion places three extra unversioned files in your working copy: filename.mine This is your file as it existed in your working copy before you updated your working copy—that is, without conflict markers. This file has only your latest changes in it. (If Subversion considers the file to be unmergeable, the .mine file isn't created, since it would be identical to the working file.) filename.rOLDREV This is the file that was the BASE revision before you updated your working copy. That is, the file that you checked out before you made your latest edits. filename.rNEWREV This is the file that your Subversion client just received from the server when you updated your working copy. This file corresponds to the HEAD revision of the repository. Here OLDREV is the revision number of the file in your .svn directory, and NEWREV is the revision number of the repository HEAD. For example, Sally makes changes to the file sandwich.txt, but does not yet commit those changes. Meanwhile, Harry commits changes to that same file. Sally updates her working copy before committing and she gets a conflict, which she postpones: $ svn update Conflict discovered in 'sandwich.txt'. Select: (p) postpone, (df) diff-full, (e) edit, (h)elp for more options : p C sandwich.txt Updated to revision 2. $ ls -1 sandwich.txt sandwich.txt.mine sandwich.txt.r1 sandwich.txt.r2 At this point, Subversion will not allow Sally to commit the file sandwich.txt until the three temporary files are removed: $ svn commit -m "Add a few more things" svn: Commit failed (details follow): svn: Aborting commit: '/home/sally/svn-work/sandwich.txt' remains in conflict If you've postponed a conflict, you need to resolve the conflict before Subversion will allow you to commit your changes. You'll do this with the svn resolve command and one of several arguments to the --accept option. If you want to choose the version of the file that you last checked out before making your edits, choose the base argument. If you want to choose the version that contains only your edits, choose the mine-full argument. If you want to choose the version that your most recent update pulled from the server (and 28