Sometimes, when i do a merge from a branch back to head, I get almost the entire project showing as conflicting merges. This happens primarily with unchanged .java, .jsp and .html files, ie text files. When I bring up the conflict view, the view shows the everything is in conflict, but the files are identical.
for example:
local 1.1 remote 1.1
abc def abc def <— marked as a conflict
On a real large project where many changes have been made prior to a merge, this means we have to visually verify each and evey file in the project, which can take nours, if not days. The last time it happened, about 3 hours ago, I had only made changes to about 12 files and I knew which ones they were, so it was easy to see that the ones with the changes were handled correctly and the ones that were unchanged were the only ones showing as conflicts.
This is a becoming a real issue for us now and needs to be fixed.
And I do realize that this might be an issue with the underlying CVS software, in which case a workaround would be appreciated.