Version Number Only Changes

Oliver Fromme olli at lurza.secnetix.de
Thu Jan 8 05:30:42 PST 2009


Jason C. Wells wrote:
 > I am sure there is a reason for it.  Upon running mergemaster this time 
 > through it seemed like there were _a lot_ of files where the only change 
 > was the version number.  I have run to mergemaster on four more hosts.  Ugh!
 > 
 > mergemaster -aiU still seems to require a ton of interaction.  Is there 
 > a better way?

I have the following in /etc/mergemaster.rc:

DIFF_FLAG='-Bub'
DIFF_OPTIONS='-I$FreeBSD:.*[$]'
IGNORE_MOTD=yes

Also, I'm not sure you really want to use the -a option.

Best regards
   Oliver

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