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Date:      Mon, 4 Jan 2021 04:29:42 -0800
From:      David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
To:        "Hartmann, O." <ohartmann@walstatt.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: CURRENT, usr/src on git, howto "mergemaster"?
Message-ID:  <X/MKNnDIdd/mCUNP@albert.catwhisker.org>
In-Reply-To: <20210104123512.0f5e1b01@hermann.fritz.box>
References:  <20210104123512.0f5e1b01@hermann.fritz.box>

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On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 12:35:28PM +0100, Hartmann, O. wrote:
> Now, since /usr/src has been siwtched to git on several boxes and the for=
mer svn tag
> $FreeBSD$ seem not valid/useful anymore, how am I (or any other here) sup=
posed to
> "mergemaster"?
>=20
> I did a full "mergemaster -CUFi" lately and did the same again, but when =
mergemaster ran
> the second (or n-th) time again, it stops by by the same non standard fil=
es in etc edited
> by me. Is there a workaround and if so, please hint me to the announcemen=
t.=20
>=20
> Thanks in advance,
> a happy new year
> ....

After trying to use mergemaster for a couple of weeks (after the switch
to sources from git, vs. svn) of daily tracking of head & stable/12 on a
pair of machines (and weekly tracking of stable/12 on another 4), I gave
up and switched to etcupdate.

Note that each of mergemaster and etcupdate has a "-p" flag; it is
functionally equivalent between the two, but called slightly
differently:

* mergemaster: 'Pre-buildworld mode'

* etcupdate: '=E2=80=9Cpre-world=E2=80=9D mode'

And note that per src/UPDATING, "mergemaster -Fp" is invoked after "make
buildworld" but before "make installworld" (under "To rebuild everything
and install it on the current system.", under "COMMON ITEMS:").

Caveat: Since the switch, I have yet to encounter a case where I needed
to merge a change in (e.g., because of a newly-created user, or there
was a commit to /etc/crontab or /etc/newsyslog.conf).  I may find things
rather "more interesting" when that happens; we shall see.

Peace,
david
--=20
David H. Wolfskill                              david@catwhisker.org
An election becomes "disputed" merely when any party claims a disagreement
about it, no matter how evidence-free, specious, absurd, or ridiculous.

See https://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.

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