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Date:      Tue, 3 May 2005 11:44:38 +0200
From:      John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>
To:        Denis Peplin <den@freebsd.org>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mergemaster improvement (auto-update for not modified files)
Message-ID:  <20050503094438.GA44097@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <427743ED.6020200@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <427743ED.6020200@FreeBSD.org>

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On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 01:27:09PM +0400, Denis Peplin wrote:
> 
> The mergemaster with this is test patch (attached)
> can auto-update files that was not modified.
> 
> It do this by compairing each file with it's CVS
> copy. If file was not modified, it can be rewritten.
> 
> This dramatically redices amount of files that require
> admin's attention.
> 
> There is one major problem here:
> This can be done in single-user mode only if your
> have local CVS repository, because if local CVS is
> not exist, anoncvs is used.
> 
> Possible solutions:

What about mergemaster storing a copy of the original somewhere on disk
for usage next time? Then the first run may still be slow, but following
runs will be able to use it.

John
-- 
John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org



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