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Date:      Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:11:18 +0100
From:      Greg Byshenk <freebsd@byshenk.net>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: I broke my SSH to jails after 7.2-8.0 src upgrade
Message-ID:  <20100314091118.GM2303@core.byshenk.net>
In-Reply-To: <4B9C753E.7030102@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20100312101350.GH2303@core.byshenk.net> <4B9C753E.7030102@FreeBSD.org>

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On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 09:33:50PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> On 03/12/10 02:13, Greg Byshenk wrote:

> > I would put in a word for 'mergemaster -F' (or maybe '-iF') in such
> > cases.
 
> At this point the -U option is generally a safer bet. The only time this
> won't work for you is when upgrading from an older -RELEASE where you've
> never run mergemaster previously, in which case it will bark loudly that
> there is no mtree database. You could then run 'mergemaster -Fi' as you
> suggested, and run 'mergemaster -U' immediately thereafter and you
> should get as much "automation" as is possible.

I don't actually want "as much 'automation' as is possible".  Generally
I want to know what is being modified, even if it is in a file that I
haven't changed.  I like '-F' because it allows me to ignore the huge
number of files that aren't actually changed -- except the RCS line --
that sometimes arise when moving between versions.


-- 
greg byshenk  -  gbyshenk@byshenk.net  -  Leiden, NL



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