Drop incoming modifications

In the situation when your file is in conflict but you decide that your working copy file and its content is the correct one, you can decide to drop some or all of the incoming changes and commit afterwards. The action Mark as merged proves to be useful in this case too. After opening the conflicting files with Compare view, Editor or editing their properties in the Properties view and deciding that your file can be committed in the repository replacing the existing one, you should first use Mark as merged action. When you want to override completely the remote file with the local file you can use Override and commit which drops any remote changes and commits your file.

Figure 3.26. Override and commit dialog

Override and commit dialog


In general it is much safer to analyze all incoming and outgoing changes using Compare view and only after to update and commit.