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Date:      Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:54:33 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, antik@bsd.ee
Subject:   Re: mergemaster annoyance or not?
Message-ID:  <200903131054.40000.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <200903121505.n2CF5RXx047734@lurza.secnetix.de>
References:  <200903121505.n2CF5RXx047734@lurza.secnetix.de>

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On Friday 13 March 2009 01:35:27 Oliver Fromme wrote:
> PS:  I think the above options should _not_ be on by
> default, because that would be a POLA violation.
> Those people who want them can easily add them to their
> mergemaster.rc file.

Perhaps they should be suggested in the man page..

I agree it's a POLA violation, but it is rather annoying they can't be made=
=20
the default as it is very much more pleasant to use with those options - th=
e=20
defaults can be a recipe for either extreme tedium, or errors depending on =
how=20
patient you are :)

I wonder how hard it would be to add 3 way merging (like sysutils/etcmerge)=
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mergemaster..

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
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