title: What's up with SVN putting "<<<<<<< .mine" all over the place?
body: <p>What's going on here?  I have used TFS and SourceGear Vault and neither of these source code managers corrupt files like SVN.  They actually open up a nice little window giving you the chance to resolve conflicts and then apply the resolved code to your file.  SVN's approach appears to be to litter your code files with "markings" that you have to manually delete after you realize your code doesn't build due to design-time errors or pages don't load because of malformed markup.  The most annoying is when the project file's XML gets corrupted, causing you to have to unload the project and edit the XML manually.</p>
  
  <p>Can someone please tell me that there is a way to tell SVN not to do this so that it behaves like a rational source code manager?</p>