About mergemaster (Re: upgrading)

Doug White dwhite at gumbysoft.com
Thu Sep 25 09:21:10 PDT 2003


On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Jim C. Nasby wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:25:10AM -0700, Doug White wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> >
> > > I think a far better solution would be to give mergemaster the ability
> > > to compare files to the version in CVS as reported by the $FreeBSD$ tag.
> >
> > In 99% of cases, there is no CVS repo to compare against.
>
> Huh? What about the main FBSD CVS repository?

You don't have access to that.   You can make your own copy with cvsup,
but we can't have everyone's mergemasters pummeling repoman.

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