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Date:      Mon, 20 Feb 1995 11:06:16 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        nate@freefall.cdrom.com (Nate Williams)
Cc:        CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-gnu@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/diff3 diff3.1
Message-ID:  <199502201906.LAA19769@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <199502201847.KAA00993@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Nate Williams" at Feb 20, 95 10:47:20 am

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> nate        95/02/20 10:47:19
> 
>   Modified:    gnu/usr.bin/diff diff3.c
>                gnu/usr.bin/diff3 diff3.1
>   Log:
>   Fixed non-conflict errors that occur when changes made to the local files are
>   the same as the changes made in the repository.  This is often seen by
>   people with remote CVS trees that have applied their local patches to the
>   master site.  a 'cvs update' will show bogus conflicts.
>   
>   Obtained from: CVS mailing list, Stig<stig@inse.com>
>   
>   In diffutils 2.6 and 2.7, diff3 -A complains about identical overlapping
>   changes.  They're different from the ancestor but not from each other...
>   Why bother?  The patch below fixes this nonsense and preserves [B]ackwards
>   compatiblity with the -B flag (also --show-bogus-conflicts).
>   
>   Party on...
>   Stig

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!  [For those not supping cvs this is really
a big time saver after a commit for those that do!]


-- 
Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company                   Custom computers for FreeBSD



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