What do you think of mergemaster -i option ?

taxman taxman at acd.net
Fri Apr 18 19:12:37 PDT 2003


On Friday 18 April 2003 08:39 pm, Anton Zavrin wrote:
> Yeah, I don't have luck with mergemaster, may be after another 100 times
> I run it I will educate myself to properly use it.

Its not *that* bad.  I can still remember when I had no idea what to do with 
the pile of symbols it flew across the screen.  All you have to do is write 
down or take note of any of the files in /etc that you have modified from the 
defaults.  For every one of those, choose save for later.  For every file 
you've never modified, or is new, just go ahead and install it, the new 
versions will be good for you.  :)

> So, would '-i' option help me to automate the process?

sure, that'll at least take care of all the new files for you.

Tim


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