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Date:      Wed, 17 Oct 2001 00:34:19 -0400 (EDT)
From:      <doug@safeport.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mergemaster -- whats the best way?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110170031370.23659-100000@pemaquid.safeport.com>

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I have not tried the -s option I will read and try that the next time. I  
find that the longer you go between builds, the more files running:

    mergemaster -ai

leaves. Mostly these files can be recognized because they have the same   
date. I have attached the script I wrote to do this. Typically mergemaster
leaves about 100 files. Using this script I can get about 75% of them.

The method is:

run it with no operands and you get the documentation which basically
says:

  1) mergemaster -ai
  2) ./mm_update.sh -l      - At this point you will se a bunch of files  
                              that mergemaster left behind. They will mostly 
                              have the same date. If they are okay to replace.. 
  3) ./mm_update -r -d date - must be quoted to match ls output
  4) mergemaster -r         - to handle what really needs to be merged or
                              replaced.
                              
                              
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:

> Jonathan M. Slivko wrote:
> >
> > Whats the best way about going to do a mergemaster without having to read
> > through every single change, modification, etc. Is there some kind of script
> > that will automatically merge the changes into the existing files without   
> > much user intervention? (e.g. unattended?)
> 
> use these both sequences, only manually required changes will be prompted.
> 
> mergemaster -svia
> mergemaster -vir # or -svir
>
> see the manual pages for details or search the -freebsd mailing lists.
>
> Cyrille.
> --
> Cyrille Lefevre                 mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net

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