mergemaster comparing everything.

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Fri Nov 12 19:07:58 UTC 2010


On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Leon Me?ner wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 09:40:01AM -0700, Warren Block wrote:
>> On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Leon Me?ner wrote:
>>
>>> is there a trick besides using the rcs funktion of mergemaster to get
>>> around having to look at every file in /etc for comparison?
>>> I know there once was a bug in mergemaster but it's closed for a long
>>> time now.
>> ...
>>> 90% of the differences are just in this cvs? tag lines. This is an
>>> upgrade from 8.1 to -STABLE.
>>
>> 'mergemaster -Ui' helps.
>
> thanks, that helped. Did the default behavior of mergemaster change
> somewhere because i didn't have to do this awhile ago (months not
> years).

Not AFAIK, but I've been using -Ui for quite a while, so maybe I just 
missed it.


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