Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 07:32:38 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Administrative tag a possibility? Message-ID: <3B036276.944E19DB@nisser.com>
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Being in a cycle of updates I got once again confronted - though assisted by mergemaster - with a series of needless needs to accord administrative changes like: ----- *** Displaying differences between ./etc/gettytab and installed version --- /etc/gettytab Mon Feb 15 11:45:33 1999 +++ ./etc/gettytab Thu May 17 07:15:19 2001 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# $Id: gettytab,v 1.16 1998/09/02 01:34:55 brian Exp $ +# $FreeBSD: src/etc/gettytab,v 1.16.2.1 1999/08/29 14:18:43 peter Exp $ # from: @(#)gettytab 5.14 (Berkeley) 3/27/91 # # Most of the table entries here are just copies of the old getty table, ----- Which got me thinking, dangerous though it may be, would it really not be possible to devise some secret handshake that would allow a tool like mergemaster or even - yeah, I'm stretching concepts - a human to recognize such a change for what it is and act correspondingly? Say introducing a convention like '$!$' to denote an always to be acceptable change? Roelof -- _______________________________________________________________________ eBOAź est. 1982 http://eBOA.com/ tel. +31-58-2123014 mailto:info@eBOA.com?subject=Information_request fax. +31-58-2160293 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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