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Ticket UUID: b081e09e28176eefdfd3a8a99d0d086205e890f0
Title: On conflict of binary files locally, fossil overwrites local changes
Status: Open Type: Code_Defect
Severity: Important Priority:
Subsystem: Resolution:
Last Modified: 2011-01-26 22:25:20
Version Found In: [6f42e76d80]
Description & Comments:
In case of a modified binary file, and a later "fossil update" taking in changes in that file, fossil will overwrite the local file with that incoming.

It will report CONFLICT on that file, leaving "fossil undo" as the only option to get the local changes back.

A user may loose changes in that situation, if he fails to see the CONFLICT message. I think that fossil should, like subversion, copy the file with local changes into another filename in the same directory, like "myfile.odt~local".