mergemaster feature suggestion...

[Richard Coleman]

Andy Farkas wrote:

> Richard Coleman wrote:
> 
>>Well, regardless of what is the official method, it doesn't mean we (as
>>developers) need to make life hard for ourselves.  There are a couple
>>times I would have found such a feature in mergemaster to be useful
>>(mainly as a sanity check).  It's not a showstopper, just a "nice to have".
> 
> I *always* use mergemaster's -v option. It does exactly what I want: tells
> me which files currently in /etc that are not part of the new install.
> 
>  :{ andyf at speednet.com.au
> 
>         Andy Farkas
>     System Administrator
>    Speednet Communications
>  http://www.speednet.com.au/

Doh.  The feature I was looking for is essentially already there.  For 
some reason, I didn't notice this when I read the man page.  Thanks for 
the pointer.

Richard Coleman
richardcoleman at mindspring.com