mergemaster broken?

[John-Mark Gurney]

Robert Watson wrote this message on Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 09:38 +0000:
> So while I don't have opinions about the implementation details, I think 
> what Ruslan is proposing is architecturally the right thing.  How to handle 
> the command line argument, I don't have an opinion, except that user 
> surprise is bad, so a new argument with some compatibility and a warning is 
> probably better than changing "-m".

Why not detect etc as the last component of -m and print a nice little
warning, and then remove /etc from the path?  (or adding .. if we end
up with an empty path)..   and after a year or so, remove the warning
and the compat code...  I doubt people are doing something really crazy
like making foobarbaz a symlink to etc, and depending upon that..  If
they are, they get what the deserve...

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