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Date:      Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:18:01 +0100
From:      Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@pobox.com>
To:        "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>
Cc:        Daniel Brown <djb@unixan.com>, "Jonathan M. Slivko" <jslivko@4evermail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mergemaster -- whats the best way?
Message-ID:  <20011017111801.E1560@dansat.data-plan.com>
In-Reply-To: <cjsncjkrrp.ncj@localhost.localdomain>; from swear@blarg.net on Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 05:57:14PM -0700
References:  <001301c15671$6b2effe0$252da818@sioux> <5.1.0.14.0.20011016140751.02852dc8@pop.schulte.org> <20011016220800.B55640@dansat.data-plan.com> <20011016152927.0cc816e3.djb@unixan.com> <cjsncjkrrp.ncj@localhost.localdomain>

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On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 05:57:14PM -0700, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
> Daniel Brown <djb@unixan.com> writes:
> 
> > Personally, I was thinking of hacking this feature into my own copies of
> > mergemaster some time in the medium future. =)
> 
> I was thinking it would be good to somehow save copies of all installed
> config files (not just MD5s) and make it convenient to compare changes
> in the installed config files instead of comparing an installed file
> with my custom file.

This would allow a three-way diff/merge which would be far better.

Tim.

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