Re: [PATCH] New --file-merge option for issue #4487

2014-04-08 Thread Julian Foad
I would like to see the internal file merge to be of equal citizenship with external merge tools. Like Daniel said elsewhere, extracting it as a separate executable is one way to achieve that. "file merge" is a great name, except it's not the name we already use for specifying the file merge to

Re: [PATCH] New --file-merge option for issue #4487

2014-04-07 Thread Johan Corveleyn
On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 8:01 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > Stefan Sperling wrote on Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 18:00:21 +0200: >> A new --file-merge option is the simplest way of solving this >> problem I could come up with. It maps the options provided by >> the internal merge tool to a command line flag:

Re: [PATCH] New --file-merge option for issue #4487

2014-04-07 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Stefan Sperling wrote on Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 18:00:21 +0200: > A new --file-merge option is the simplest way of solving this > problem I could come up with. It maps the options provided by > the internal merge tool to a command line flag: > > --file-merge ARG : Set a pre-defined choice

[PATCH] New --file-merge option for issue #4487

2014-04-07 Thread Stefan Sperling
Hi, the patch below adds a --file-merge option, in an attempt to solve issue #4487 "add a scriptable non-interactive option for additive merges" http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4487 There's been a discussion on IRC about this today: http://colabti.org/irclogger/irclogger_log/s