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Date:      Mon, 4 Jan 2021 10:39:18 -0800
From:      Enji Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
To:        FreeBSD Current <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: CURRENT, usr/src on git, howto "mergemaster"?
Message-ID:  <1C7B83B8-60A1-473D-8791-0A03AFEA1405@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <X/NfZNGmAN/lTPCB@albert.catwhisker.org>
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> On Jan 4, 2021, at 10:33 AM, David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 10:30:28AM -0800, Enji Cooper wrote:
>> ... 
>> Adding to this: it has no maintainer, it’s less featureful, and it lacks tests. Once I switched to etcupdate a few years back I never looked back at mergemaster.
>> 
>> I honestly think it should be deprecated in 13.x and removed in 14.x. It’s been several major releases since it’s been unofficially deprecated.
>> 
>> -Enji
>> ....
> 
> All of which is fine, but at some point prior to that, perhaps
> src/UPDATING's instructions that cite its use might merit a change to
> reflect the use of a supported tool?

I’ll submit a patch soon on Phabricator to do this (might as well test out the new git workflow on my end…).
Cheers,
-Enji

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