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Richard Coleman wrote:

> Well, regardless of what is the official method, it doesn't mean we (as
> developers) need to make life hard for ourselves.  There are a couple
> times I would have found such a feature in mergemaster to be useful
> (mainly as a sanity check).  It's not a showstopper, just a "nice to have".

I *always* use mergemaster's -v option. It does exactly what I want: tells
me which files currently in /etc that are not part of the new install.

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