Re: A smarter mergemaster

From: Ashley Moran (work_at_ashleymoran.me.uk)
Date: 09/30/05

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    Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 09:53:42 +0100
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    Daniel O'Connor wrote:

    > This work does look neat, but..
    > Try etcmerge :)
    > It's a bit of a pain to get started with it, but it is a *lot* faster (human
    > input wise) than mergemaster. It only asks you about files that you have
    > modified rather than ones that have been changed by committers (ie does a 3
    > way merge).
    >
    > It does have problems handling DB files, but that is usually not a big problem
    > to fix.
    >

    I read about etcmerge in BSD Hacks and there's been no going back for
    me. It seems pretty stable even though it's not been updated for a good
    while. Is there any chance it will ever make it into the FreeBSD core
    system?

    Ashley
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