Windows XP Pro SP2, SVK 2.0.1_91, TortoiseMerge 1.4.1:<br><br>When I invoke TortoiseMerge from svk smerge, TortoiseMerge gives error:<br>"The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process"
<br><br>Found the following exchange at <a href="http://svn.haxx.se/tsvnusers/archive-2006-03/0031.shtml">http://svn.haxx.se/tsvnusers/archive-2006-03/0031.shtml</a>:<br><br>---------------------------------------------------------------
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<dfn>From</dfn>: Stefan Küng</span><br>
<span id="date"><dfn>Date</dfn>: 2006-03-02 19:40:17 CET</span><br>
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Alexey Marin wrote:
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<em class="quotelev1">> Hello.
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<em class="quotelev1">> I've tried to use Tortoise Merge as external diff/merge program for SVK
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<em class="quotelev1">> and found the following problem:
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<em class="quotelev1">> TMerge opens all four files (base, mine, theirs, merge) for read/write
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<em class="quotelev1">> access, but actually it needs write access for 'merge' file only.
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<em class="quotelev1">> The problem is that SVK locks all files except for 'merge' and TMerge
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<em class="quotelev1">> crashes on opening these files.
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</p><p>TMerge does not open those files with write access. We always open them
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for reading only, even with shared access.
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</p><p>So why don't you report this issue to the SVK people? I mean their
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program is crashing, not TMerge!
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</p>Stefan
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