[cvsnt] But... (was: No conflict when merging, where one is expected)

[John Peacock]

Petr Prikryl wrote:

> But when I remove the file, I can see it as editing
> of all its lines. This way, the edited regions from
> the branch do overlap and it should look like a conflict.

It is only a conflict if the _same_ lines were changed.  CVS always attempts to 
merge files automatically and only produces a conflict if it is unable to 
determine which change to a file/line should take precedence.  It is trivial to 
merge a file on the branch with a missing file on HEAD, so there _is_ no conflict.

> Here one user modified a line and the other user
> deleted it (with the file) -- clearly a conflict from
> user's point of view.

That is not how CVS has ever worked (or any other CMS/VCS system I have used). 
If you want to know what changed before you merge, you can either use 'cvs diff' 
or use 'cvs -n checkout ...' to see what would change.

You want something else, not conflict resolution...

John