On 17/03/2008, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 17/03/2008, Thomas Dalton
<thomas.dalton(a)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.