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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