[vwnc] [Store-Merge] the warning message when close merging tool w/o publishing

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[vwnc] [Store-Merge] the warning message when close merging tool w/o publishing

J G
Hi,

When closing a merge window it would warn there are changes not
published and ask for confirm though I haven't made any change. So is
it safe to just ignore the warning? Will this cause some problem in
source code?


Best Regards,

Jim G
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Re: [vwnc] [Store-Merge] the warning message when close merging tool w/o publishing

Alan Knight-2
It is safe to ignore. It's just warning you to avoid the case where you carefully figure out which versions to apply when merging but then close the merge tool unintentionally and lose that work.

At 11:23 PM 2009-10-21, Jim Guo wrote:
Hi,

When closing a merge window it would warn there are changes not
published and ask for confirm though I haven't made any change. So is
it safe to just ignore the warning? Will this cause some problem in
source code?


Best Regards,

Jim G
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Re: [vwnc] [Store-Merge] the warning message when close merging tool w/o publishing

Niall Ross
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Dear Jim,
    it will not cause any problem, whether or not you have applied any
changes.  Your image code will remain in the same state as before you
closed and you can of course publish later if you wish.  The warning is
a case of  'safer to warn than not':

 - Publishing from the merge tool writes a blessing comment saying what
you merged;  you can write the same information by hand later, of course

 - Computing merges takes time.  Recording resolution decisions takes
time and your thinking effort.  If you close before publishing, any
unapplied resolves are lost and if you then reopen, the tool again takes
time to compute the merge.

So it's just a standard 'Sure you want to close?' warning.

          Yours faithfully
             Niall Ross

>Hi,
>
>When closing a merge window it would warn there are changes not
>published and ask for confirm though I haven't made any change. So is
>it safe to just ignore the warning? Will this cause some problem in
>source code?
>
>
>Best Regards,
>
>Jim G
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