mergemaster annoyance or not?
Daniel O'Connor
doconnor at gsoft.com.au
Fri Mar 13 02:01:34 PDT 2009
On Friday 13 March 2009 17:56:17 perryh at pluto.rain.com wrote:
> "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor at gsoft.com.au> wrote:
> > I wonder how hard it would be to add 3 way merging (like
> > sysutils/etcmerge) to mergemaster..
>
> One complication: to do a 3-way merge you have to have the common
> ancestor. To ensure the initial availability of such would require
> some infrastructure which AFAIK does not currently exist:
>
> * A standardized place to keep the original contents of /etc --
> /origEtc or /etc-<versionId> anyone?
etcmerge keeps it in /var/db/etc
> * A way to ensure that installation populates that place with
> the needed redundant copy of the bits, either by including the
> additional instance within the distributions or by generating
> it in the course of installation. The former would likely be
> easier, if only because the latter would need to work for all
> installation methods.
IMO it is OK to fall back to a 2 way diff if it doesn't exist (ie the first
time you run it)
--
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
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