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Date:      Fri, 25 Dec 2020 04:18:22 -0800
From:      David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
To:        Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
Cc:        Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: git, $FreeBSD$ and mergemaster
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On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 10:00:57PM +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> Hi Kyle,
>=20
> On Thu, 24 Dec 2020 at 15:05, Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org> wrote:
> ...
> > mergemaster only uses it as an optimization, if they're unexpanded
> > throughout then it falls back to diff(1) -- i.e. it's slower without.
>=20
> Thanks for the answer.
>=20
> However, wouldn't this mean that every run of "mergemaster" would
> prompt for local changes? The nice thing about using the $FreeBSD$
> tags was that if I approved a local-change, subsequent runs of
> mergemaster would not prompt me about the local-change unless the
> etc-file had been modified in the source tree.
>=20
> Cheers.
> --=20
> Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
> ....

Indeed: the above-described behavior is what I have observed so far
since the transition (tracking head & stable/12 daily on two machines).

I would go a bit further than stating that the prior behavior was
"nice."

Peace,
david
--=20
David H. Wolfskill                              david@catwhisker.org
"Dismissing reality doesn't make it go away."
 - Rajiv Shah, Rockefeller Foundation president

See https://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.

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