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Date:      Wed, 14 Mar 2001 01:37:35 +0000
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org
Subject:   Re: Proposal to mergemaster 
Message-ID:  <200103140137.f2E1bZa10327@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch>  of "Tue, 13 Mar 2001 13:41:47 %2B0100." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103131202110.988-100000@levais.imp.ch> 

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> 
> Hi,
> 
> After 100erts of mergemaster sessions, I'm looking for a way to improve
> mergemaster.
> 
> 1st thing, mergemaster displays per default all in changed files. That's
> ok for the first time, but if you maintain many hosts, this is annoying a
> lot.
> 
> There should be an options to display all changed files anyway, so you
> can watch what has changed. (but off by default)
> 
> So I have ideas to improve merge-master:
> 
> 1. Add md5 checksum to the the file-header:
> -------------------------------------------
[.....]
> 2. Have a special database with md5 checksums
> ---------------------------------------------
[.....]

3.  Have a cvs-aware option.

If the installed and new version numbers differ, mergemaster does a 
cvs diff -u -rINSTALLEDVERSION newversion | patch INSTALLEDFILE.  If 
this works, everyone's happy.  If not, it forces you to modify the 
new file 'till there are no <<<<< >>>>> bits in it.

> Martin Blapp, mb@imp.ch
> ------------------------------------------------
> Improware AG, UNIX solution and service provider
> Zurlindenstrasse 29, 4133 Pratteln, Switzerland
> Phone: +41 79 370 26 05, Fax: +41 61 826 93 01
> ------------------------------------------------

-- 
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>                        <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org>
      <http://www.Awfulhak.org>;                   <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org>
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