From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 17 23:53:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n1f.san.rr.com (dt051n1f.san.rr.com [204.210.32.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87C5037B6A0 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 23:53:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n1f.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA52609; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 23:52:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <399CDD39.FDAB7143@gorean.org> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 23:52:41 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jason T Cc: Brian Somers , Gerhard Sittig , FreeBSD stable Subject: Re: remove empty TEMPROOT dirs at mergemaster's end? (was: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/mergemaster mergemaster.sh) References: <200008171114.e7HBEuq01585@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> <20000817232616.B296@sseye.ahab.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jason T wrote: > > I think I can clarify. If mergemaster leaves ANY files behind, it also leave > the subdirectories, even the empty ones. The request is to have empty > subdirectories (of ${TEMPROOT}) removed automatically. This benefits anyone, > experienced or novice, who leaves some files behind for more deliberate > examination after mergemaster. I understand the conditions. What I don't understand is what the benefit is. HOW does removing the directories help? Almost every single file that you would want to re-examine is going to be in the temp etc. The exceptions are too insignificant to worry about. Also, the other reason to leave the directory behind is so that if you have to rebuild it, it won't take as long. Deleting the file hierarchy defeats that purpose. > The request was to make this standard mergemaster behavior, not another expert > option. Well, I missed that bit. I have to confess that the whole point of this request totally escapes me. But, I had a crappy day at work today so maybe that's clouded my judgement or something. In this particular case if I get a lot of "me too's" (private please) then I guess we can add this, but frankly I think that we're talking about window dressing that's at best a 50:50 in the cost:benefit department. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message