SVN - Resolve Conflicts

Tom decides to add a README file for their project. So he creates the README file and adds TODO list into that. After adding this, the file repository is at revision 6.

[tom@CentOS trunk]$ cat README 
/* TODO: Add contents in README file */

[tom@CentOS trunk]$ svn status
?       README

[tom@CentOS trunk]$ svn add README 
A         README

[tom@CentOS trunk]$ svn commit -m "Added README file. Will update it's content in future."
Adding         trunk/README
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 6.

Jerry checks out the latest code which is at revision 6. And immediately he starts working. After a few hours, Tom updates README file and commits his changes. The modified README will look like this.

[tom@CentOS trunk]$ cat README 
* Supported operations:

1) Accept input
2) Display array elements

[tom@CentOS trunk]$ svn status
M       README

[tom@CentOS trunk]$ svn commit -m "Added supported operation in README"
Sending        trunk/README
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 7.

Now, the repository is at revision 7 and Jerry's working copy is out of date. Jerry also updates the README file and tries to commit his changes.

Jerry's README file looks like this.

[jerry@CentOS trunk]$ cat README 
* File list

1) array.c	Implementation of array operation.
2) README	Instructions for user.

[jerry@CentOS trunk]$ svn status
M       README

[jerry@CentOS trunk]$ svn commit -m "Updated README"
Sending        trunk/README
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: File or directory 'README' is out of date; try updating
svn: resource out of date; try updating

Step 1: View Conflicts

Subversion has detected that the README file has changed since last updated. So, Jerry has to update his working copy.

[jerry@CentOS trunk]$ svn up
Conflict discovered in 'README'.
Select: (p) postpone, (df) diff-full, (e) edit,
        (mc) mine-conflict, (tc) theirs-conflict,
        (s) show all options:

Subversion is complaining that there is a conflict with the README file, and Subversion does not know how to solve this. So Jerry chooses the df option to review the conflict.

[jerry@CentOS trunk]$ svn up
Conflict discovered in 'README'.
Select: (p) postpone, (df) diff-full, (e) edit,
        (mc) mine-conflict, (tc) theirs-conflict,
        (s) show all options: df
--- .svn/text-base/README.svn-base	Sat Aug 24 18:07:13 2013
+++ .svn/tmp/README.tmp	Sat Aug 24 18:13:03 2013
@@ -1 +1,11 @@
-/* TODO: Add contents in README file */
+<<<<<<< .mine
+* File list
+
+1) array.c	Implementation of array operation.
+2) README	Instructions for user.
+=======
+* Supported operations:
+
+1) Accept input
+2) Display array elements
+>>>>>>> .r7
Select: (p) postpone, (df) diff-full, (e) edit, (r) resolved,
        (mc) mine-conflict, (tc) theirs-conflict,
        (s) show all options:

Step 2: Postpone Conflicts

Next Jerry chooses the postpone(p) options, so that he can resolve the conflict.

Select: (p) postpone, (df) diff-full, (e) edit, (r) resolved,
        (mc) mine-conflict, (tc) theirs-conflict,
        (s) show all options: p
C    README
Updated to revision 7.
Summary of conflicts:
  Text conflicts: 1

After opening the README in text editor he realizes that Subversion has included both Tom's code and his code with conflict markers.

[jerry@CentOS trunk]$ cat README
<<<<<<< .min
* File list

1) array.c	Implementation of array operation.
2) README	Instructions for user.
=======
* Supported operations:

1) Accept input
2) Display array elements
>>>>>>> .r7

Jerry wants Tom's changes as well as his, so he just removes the lines containing the conflict markers.

So, the modified README will look like this.

[jerry@CentOS trunk]$ cat README
* File list

1) array.c	Implementation of array operation.
2) README	Instructions for user.

* Supported operations:

1) Accept input
2) Display array elements

Jerry resolved the conflict and he retries commit.

[jerry@CentOS trunk]$ svn commit -m "Updated README"
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: Aborting commit: '/home/jerry/project_repo/trunk/README' remains in conflict
 
[jerry@CentOS trunk]$ svn status
?       README.r6
?       README.r7
?       README.mine
C       README

Step 3: Resolve Conflicts

In the above commit, the letter C indicates that there is a conflict in the README file. Jerry resolved the conflict but didn't tell Subversion that he had resolved the conflict. He uses the resolve command to inform Subversion about the conflict resolution.

[jerry@CentOS trunk]$ svn resolve --accept=working README
Resolved conflicted state of 'README'

[jerry@CentOS trunk]$ svn status
M       README

[jerry@CentOS trunk]$ svn commit -m "Updated README"
Sending        trunk/README
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 8.
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