Re: A smarter mergemaster

From: Daniel O'Connor (doconnor_at_gsoft.com.au)
Date: 09/30/05

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    On Friday 30 September 2005 18:23, Ashley Moran wrote:
    > > 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?

    It sure would be nice :)
    One thing would be to have automatically fetched etc directories so when you
    ran it for the first time it would grab a release version of etc for you :)
    Hmm.. I'll try and add that if I get some time I think! 

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