Re: Mergemaster niggle

2002-02-11 Thread David W. Chapman Jr.
> The real question here is: why is the RCSid changing when the file > isn't? Sometimes things get changed and then backed out to their original state, but you cannot keep the original RCSID To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the mes

Re: Mergemaster niggle

2002-02-11 Thread Mark Peek
At 11:34 AM -0700 2/6/02, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > > "David" == David W Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > David> mergemaster only checks to see if RCSID's are different by > David> default, I forget which option, but there is one to actually > David> diff the two files when

Re: Mergemaster niggle

2002-02-07 Thread Crist J. Clark
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 02:13:08PM -0600, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > > What I think mergemaster should do is compere the file with the original > > checked out one it claims to be and if it's the same, it should just > > update silently.. i.e. if the user didn't change anything in th old one >

Re: Mergemaster niggle

2002-02-06 Thread David W. Chapman Jr.
> What I think mergemaster should do is compere the file with the original > checked out one it claims to be and if it's the same, it should just > update silently.. i.e. if the user didn't change anything in th old one > he's unlikely to want to change anything in the new one > > (maybe a da

Re: Mergemaster niggle

2002-02-06 Thread Julian Elischer
What I think mergemaster should do is compere the file with the original checked out one it claims to be and if it's the same, it should just update silently.. i.e. if the user didn't change anything in th old one he's unlikely to want to change anything in the new one (maybe a datafile that

Re: Mergemaster niggle

2002-02-06 Thread Mark Peek
At 11:34 AM -0700 2/6/02, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > > "David" == David W Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > David> mergemaster only checks to see if RCSID's are different by > David> default, I forget which option, but there is one to actually > David> diff the two files when

Re: Mergemaster niggle

2002-02-06 Thread David W. Chapman Jr.
> > I can see that happening on the head, but this also happens > on stable ... One example of it happening to -stable was the addittion of www to master.passwd, www has been added and removed a few times from -stable. I'm not trying to say that this explains all the times that it happens, just

Re: Mergemaster niggle

2002-02-06 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> "David" == David W Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> Sometimes things get changed and then backed out to their David> original state, but you cannot keep the original RCSID I can see that happening on the head, but this also happens on stable ... To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Mergemaster niggle

2002-02-06 Thread David W. Chapman Jr.
> The real question here is: why is the RCSid changing when the file > isn't? Sometimes things get changed and then backed out to their original state, but you cannot keep the original RCSID To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the mes

Re: Mergemaster niggle

2002-02-06 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> "David" == David W Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> mergemaster only checks to see if RCSID's are different by David> default, I forget which option, but there is one to actually David> diff the two files when doing its inital compare, but the David> RCSID's would

Re: Mergemaster niggle

2002-02-06 Thread David W. Chapman Jr.
> Diffs like there show up for COUNTLESS times in mergemaster. In fact, > nothing changed except the cvs id. Why am I asked about these in > mergemaster? Is there a way to ignore files that only have the cvsid > changed? This would speed up the mergemaster run considerably... > mergemaster onl