Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:05:32 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Cc: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>, Garance A Drosehn <gad@freebsd.org>, cvs-src@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc Message-ID: <200608311205.34661.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <p0623091ec11bdac4f347@[128.113.24.47]> References: <200608290920.k7T9KmV9067843@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060830192456.2497b4bd.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> <p0623091ec11bdac4f347@[128.113.24.47]>
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--nextPart4417029.AGklHevN52 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 31 August 2006 10:12, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > These are files which have "too many" helpful comments or examples > in them, and which I have to modify on every single machine I ever > bring up. So *every* time one of these changes, I have to stop and > stare at the diff in the mergemaster step, and 99% of the time the > change is just to fix or improve some comment. And in many cases, > the change is to some line that I remove in my custom copy. Now > all of those changes seem to be good changes, but they are still > an annoyance when it comes to merging in my local changes. This is yet another reason why etcmerge (3 way merge) is more useful for=20 updating configuration files. That said I agree that moving the example files to where examples should li= ve=20 is a good idea. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart4417029.AGklHevN52 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBE9kr25ZPcIHs/zowRAuanAJ9lY+KZPRXfIVZ097z3nDT6WF6RCACghq2S VO5Mvp6+bb20rJ95DFljQuY= =Nu7Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4417029.AGklHevN52--
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