mergemaster -i

[Gert Cuykens]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:28:42 -0600, Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads at cox.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 00:09:13 +0100, Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > can someone make a options i install everything so you don't have to
> > push 58 times i enter i enter i enter i enter :) drives me nuts
> > especially when you sometimes have to do enter enter enter to scroll
> > down the preview and then accidentally do 1 enter to many
> 
> You can press "q" to interrupt the display of a file.  After all,
> mergemaster is just piping the file through "more" (or less; not sure
> which).
> 
> Mergemaster's already existing "-i" switch tells it to automatically
> install any files that don't already exist in the destination directory.
> To do as you suggest, though, and simply automatically install
> *everything* would defeat the whole purpose of mergemaster.
> 
> There are occasions where, due to some new construct or whatever, a
> large number of files require updating (usually under /etc/rc.d).  In
> that case, it often is easier to simply delete all the existing files
> under /etc/rc.d and then run mergemaster -i to automatically install the
> new versions.  When such a need arises, it will usually be mentioned in
> /usr/src/UPDATING (you *do* read that before updating, don't you?).  :-)
> 
> HTH
> 
> --
> Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads at cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"
> 

/usr/src/UPDATING i would if it had more pictures in it :)

can we have a mergemaster -d then who deletes everything.