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Date:      Fri, 2 Jan 2009 17:18:09 -0500
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn: head/usr.sbin/mergemaster
Message-ID:  <18782.37537.775290.682466@hergotha.csail.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <495E91F8.3010706@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200901011055.n01AtQaN052763@svn.freebsd.org> <495DB15B.8040908@FreeBSD.org> <495DB9B6.4030801@FreeBSD.org> <495DC5AF.3050908@FreeBSD.org> <495E91F8.3010706@FreeBSD.org>

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<<On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:15:20 -0800, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> said:

> As I said in my first post, if there is overwhelming demand for this
> down the road that is not met by the existing solutions I'll consider
> adding a better implementation as an option, off by default.

It would be much better if the options that *nearly every user will
want to use* are set correctly by default.  I have to look at the man
page every time I update a system to remind myself what is that magic
option that makes mergemaster do the right thing with files I haven't
changed.

-GAWollman




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