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Date:      Fri, 13 May 2005 18:15:10 +0200
From:      John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>
To:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
Subject:   Re: mergemaster improvement (auto-update for not modified files)
Message-ID:  <20050513161510.GA97948@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <428535F5.3060604@gsoft.com.au>
References:  <427743ED.6020200@FreeBSD.org> <4284680E.1060008@FreeBSD.org> <20050513101554.GA1519@over-yonder.net> <428535F5.3060604@gsoft.com.au>

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On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 08:49:17AM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> >One thing that I'm pretty sure has been brought up before would be
> >that, for those of us who keep a local CVS repo mirror, it's easy and
> >pretty cheap to check out even arbitrary revs to compare to what's
> >currently there (and if you wanted to be REALLY overly-smart, you
> >could even try automagically merging local changes ;)
> 
> etcmerge can already do this :)

Maybe, but last time I tried to use it, I got the feeling that it was
missing a front end. If its cleverness could be married to the ease
of use of mergemaster, we would have a winner. IMVHO

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



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