mergemaster improvement (auto-update for not modified files)

[John Hay]

On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 01:27:09PM +0400, Denis Peplin wrote:
> 
> The mergemaster with this is test patch (attached)
> can auto-update files that was not modified.
> 
> It do this by compairing each file with it's CVS
> copy. If file was not modified, it can be rewritten.
> 
> This dramatically redices amount of files that require
> admin's attention.
> 
> There is one major problem here:
> This can be done in single-user mode only if your
> have local CVS repository, because if local CVS is
> not exist, anoncvs is used.
> 
> Possible solutions:

What about mergemaster storing a copy of the original somewhere on disk
for usage next time? Then the first run may still be slow, but following
runs will be able to use it.

John
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