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From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
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Subject: Re: bin/24564: local ident strings interfere with mergemaster
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Regarding Peter Pentchev's comments about this bug, and Doug Barton's
comment on the current way mergemaster handles things: `cvs status` is
no good because if the files get away from their CVS directories you
lose easy access to the revision information. (I don't have a CVS
directory in /etc).

My patch is designed to restore old functionality whilst still
accommodating the requirement for portability.

Tony.
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