CURRENT, usr/src on git, howto "mergemaster"?

Enji Cooper yaneurabeya at gmail.com
Mon Jan 4 18:39:22 UTC 2021


> On Jan 4, 2021, at 10:33 AM, David Wolfskill <david at catwhisker.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 10:30:28AM -0800, Enji Cooper wrote:
>> ... 
>> Adding to this: it has no maintainer, it’s less featureful, and it lacks tests. Once I switched to etcupdate a few years back I never looked back at mergemaster.
>> 
>> I honestly think it should be deprecated in 13.x and removed in 14.x. It’s been several major releases since it’s been unofficially deprecated.
>> 
>> -Enji
>> ....
> 
> All of which is fine, but at some point prior to that, perhaps
> src/UPDATING's instructions that cite its use might merit a change to
> reflect the use of a supported tool?

I’ll submit a patch soon on Phabricator to do this (might as well test out the new git workflow on my end…).
Cheers,
-Enji


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