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Date:      Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:41:09 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>, hackers@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: A smarter mergemaster
Message-ID:  <200509301041.10480.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20050929224548.GB3035@comp.chem.msu.su>
References:  <20050929224548.GB3035@comp.chem.msu.su>

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On Friday 30 September 2005 08:15, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> Feedback is welcome.  And please please don't skip making a backup of
> your /etc before running mergemaster!  I can't be responsible for its
> loss due to bugs in my code or whatever.

This work does look neat, but..
Try etcmerge :)
It's a bit of a pain to get started with it, but it is a *lot* faster (huma=
n=20
input wise) than mergemaster. It only asks you about files that you have=20
modified rather than ones that have been changed by committers (ie does a 3=
=20
way merge).

It does have problems handling DB files, but that is usually not a big prob=
lem=20
to fix.

=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
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