On 17/03/2008, Ian Woollard ian.woollard@gmail.com wrote:
On 17/03/2008, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
The automatic merging isn't very good, I think that's a known issue. I'm not sure how much it's meant to be able to cope with - I'll take a look at the code.
In my experience, as these things go, it's not too bad. Automerge systems have certain largely insoluble problems- for example if two people edit the same point in a file then then they can't handle it- but there's really no way to know what the correct thing to do would be in that case; which one do you put first? In the wikipedia, particularly talk pages, people often add things in the same place, so a conflict will be flagged.
It's much better than before we had automatic merging. That was a *major* pain in the arse on any page with any degree of activity. WP:ANI is probably a good example of an automerge stress test.
- d.