Why am I getting tree conflicts in Subversion?

Question

I had a feature branch of my trunk and was merging changes from my trunk into my branch periodically and everything was working fine. Today I went to merge the branch back d

Answer 1

Subversion 1.6 added Tree Conflicts to cover conflicts at the directory level. A good example would be when you locally delete a file then an update tries to bring a text change down on that file. Another is when you you have a subversion Rename of a file you are editing since that is an Add/Delete action.

CollabNet's Subversion Blog has a great article on Tree Conflicts.