Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 19:19:44 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Proposal to mergemaster Message-ID: <3AAE56B0.AB7D2E99@FreeBSD.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103131812300.988-100000@levais.imp.ch>
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Martin Blapp wrote: > Hi, > > > If you didn't change a file and it was at 1.45 > > then if the new one is at 1.55 > > you should just install it. Since you didn't touch it at 1.45 you will probably > > not want to touch it at 1.55 either. > > yes, of course. but I don't see your point. Am I missing something ? > > How can you see it hasn't been changed ? Version numbers do not tell > anything, an md5 checksum will prove 100% that a files has been modified > or not. md5 sound like an overkill to me. Configuration files are text files, so diff(1) is more appropriate here. -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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