A real merge will involve thousands of files, and you have to nurse over all 5000 conflicts *because you cannot say – only overwrite if newer*. I mean what the hell!

A complete shambles from Microsoft again.

In other words if there was a bowl that can hold 10 pieces of fruit(5 apples and 5 oranges) and there are already 5 apples in the destination bowl and 1000 trillion trillion apples and 5 oranges in the source bowl and I am asked to merge the bowls of fruit but only transfer the 5 needed oranges I should be able to do this. But Windows 7 is saying but there is too much fruit and if I merge the destination bowl will be full, and I say no Windows 7 you were only supposed to transfer the oranges during the merge because thats what’s missing. See my point? I found a fatal flaw in file merging. Or the computer that’s supposed to be able to do millions of double precision floating point operations per second just got it’s butt handed to it by a lowly one or two flop human.