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Date:      Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:17:28 +0200
From:      Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>
To:        Cristiano Deana <cristiano.deana@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: mergemaster merge left/right
Message-ID:  <4A4DDAB8.3080804@bsdforen.de>
In-Reply-To: <d8a4930a0907030234v7359642ehe0cf2a86ad7ef6d4@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <4A4DC67C.3010804@bsdforen.de> <d8a4930a0907030234v7359642ehe0cf2a86ad7ef6d4@mail.gmail.com>

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Cristiano Deana wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Dominic Fandrey<kamikaze@bsdforen.de> wrote:
> 
>> I'd really like mergemaster to tell me whether the left
>> or the right side is the new file.
>>
>> # $FreeBSD: src/etc/devd.conf,v 1.38. | # $FreeBSD: src/etc/devd.conf,v 1.38.
> 
> "From" -> "To"
> 
> The new one is *always* the right one.

I don't have to merge files all that often. mergmaster is pretty easy to
use, apart from the lack of that information. It wouldn't be very hard to
print "<old file> | <new file>" at the beginning of a merge.




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