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Date:      Sun, 21 Dec 2003 22:48:09 -0500
From:      Richard Coleman <richardcoleman@mindspring.com>
To:        Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mergemaster feature suggestion...
Message-ID:  <3FE66979.5070000@mindspring.com>
In-Reply-To: <20031222132538.N97523@hewey.af.speednet.com.au>
References:  <20031221084531.GB31516@cactus.homeunix.org> <20031221105925.GA1713@utgard.lodz.mm.pl> <1072018131.715.10.camel@localhost> <3FE5B804.6000707@ispro.net.tr> <20031221154129.GE2228@saboteur.dek.spc.org> <3FE65CFF.2000102@mindspring.com> <20031222132538.N97523@hewey.af.speednet.com.au>

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Andy Farkas wrote:

> 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.
> 
>  :{ andyf@speednet.com.au
> 
>         Andy Farkas
>     System Administrator
>    Speednet Communications
>  http://www.speednet.com.au/

Doh.  The feature I was looking for is essentially already there.  For 
some reason, I didn't notice this when I read the man page.  Thanks for 
the pointer.

Richard Coleman
richardcoleman@mindspring.com




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