[josm-dev] how does the transition to tested work ?

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

>> for me this is really a bug not an enhancement. Josm is used for semi automatic imports a lot and this creates big mess of duplicates on server/network interrupts. I know it wasn't designed for that but Josm is just such a great workhorse.
>> on normal editing this can leave a user with  conflicts after a partial upload, maybe we should add a comment that uploads should be done in 1 transaction only until this bug is fixed.
>>
>> Anyway thanks for the great work and it's better to have a stable again.
>> Josm is improving big with every release:)
>
> The problem with recommending that is that the only reason for using
> one object at a time uploading is to narrow down conflicts you may be
> having, right now due to this bug at the cost of adding lots of
> duplicates to the database.

To have better conflict solving you may use "Update modified" from first 
menu. This will produce all conflicts in one single run and allows them to 
fix in one go.

Ciao
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