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Date:      Thu, 29 Sep 2005 10:41:20 +0800 (WST)
From:      David Adam <zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>
To:        Brad Knowles <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Advice sought on upgrading from 4.11-R to 5.4...
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509291039000.22213@mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <p0620071dbf6044e1c455@[10.0.1.210]>
References:  <p0620070ebf57657f0697@[10.0.1.210]> <p0620071dbf6044e1c455@[10.0.1.210]>

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Brad,

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Brad Knowles wrote:
> 	However, it would be nice if mergemaster could be made to
> automatically accept changes that occur only in the comments of the
> files it is trying to merge.  That way, many fewer "fluff" changes
> would be presented during the merge process, and people would be left
> with needing to confirm changes regarding only actual functional code.

It's been mentioned on this list before, but sysutils/etcmerge can often
provide a much faster way of bringing your system up to spec. Takes a bit
of getting used to, but definitely worthwhile.

David Adam
zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au




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