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Date:      Wed, 23 Dec 2020 14:59:58 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 252054] mergemaster(8) regression after transitioning from svn to git
Message-ID:  <bug-252054-227-33UKKowdGO@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
In-Reply-To: <bug-252054-227@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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--- Comment #15 from Marek Zarychta <zarychtam@plan-b.pwste.edu.pl> ---
(In reply to Kyle Evans from comment #13)
If mergemaster(8) gets deprecated then people would say goodbye to it and w=
ill
struggle with etcupdate(8). Mergemaster does the merge side by side, etcupd=
ate
adds "<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<" ">>>>>>>>>>>>>>" to merged files and you have to edit
them manually also taking care of these ">>>>>>>>>>>>>>" marks.

Is it that big effort to add ident among other gitattributes(5) to have $Is$
tags to this part of sources? They are only needed for the files mergemaste=
r or
etcupdate has to cope with. When it's done both tools can be patched manual=
ly
by FreeBSD enduser if he would care.

Even if mergemaster gets deprecated and removed from the base such ident ta=
gs
in config files will be helpful. How without them would non-committers who
update their repositories only occasionally would figure out that the file =
has
changed?

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