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Avoiding merge conflicts


Maggie Stearns (1063027) | asked Jan 23 '12, 10:54 a.m.
Hello:

I'm using RTC 3.0.1.1.

I have a user who delivers a changeset to a stream. Next, he manually makes the same changes in a second changeset in a second stream and delivers to that second stream.

When I try to merge the changeset from the first stream to the second, I get merge conflicts.

In clearcase, I was able to create merge hyperlinks to avoid the conflict.

Is there a way to handle this in RTC?

Obviously, a little trainnig to show people how to merge the first changeset into the second stream also works, but this doesn't always happen.

-Thanks
Maggie

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Tim Mok (6.6k38) | answered Jan 23 '12, 11:47 a.m.
JAZZ DEVELOPER
Why do you want to deliver the first change set to the second stream? The second change set already did what the first change set did.

An alternative is to deliver the first change set to the second stream instead of recreating the same changes.

Your user may also want to read the article on resolving conflicts: https://jazz.net/library/article/39

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Geoffrey Clemm (30.1k33035) | answered Jan 24 '12, 12:08 a.m.
FORUM ADMINISTRATOR / FORUM MODERATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER
Hi Maggie,

RTC does not yet have the equivalent of the CC "add merge hyperlinks"
functionality. It is requested in work item 159380. Please feel free
to add a comment indicating your interest/support for that functionality.

Cheers,
Geoff

On 1/23/2012 11:08 AM, mstearns wrote:
Hello:

I'm using RTC 3.0.1.1.

I have a user who delivers a changeset to a stream. Next, he manually
makes the same changes in a second changeset in a second stream and
delivers to that second stream.

When I try to merge the changeset from the first stream to the second,
I get merge conflicts.

In clearcase, I was able to create merge hyperlinks to avoid the
conflict.

Is there a way to handle this in RTC?

Obviously, a little trainnig to show people how to merge the first
changeset into the second stream also works, but this doesn't always
happen.

-Thanks
Maggie

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