On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 11:36 PM, Doug Barton <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/08/2011 23:31, Peter Wemm wrote: >> No, if people use mergemaster in this mode: >> -U Attempt to auto upgrade files that have not been user >> modified. >> .. then mergemaster will silently turn off NIS for you. >> >> If it is considered bad practice to use -U, then people should be >> directed away from it. > > I've been telling people that this is a bad idea since day 1. It's also > the reason I refuse to make it the default.
It should say so in the documentation. As it stands now, it gives no hints of the danger and that it should not be used. "Attempt to auto upgrade files that have not been user modied." certainly looks like something that a random person would want. -- Peter Wemm - [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; KI6FJV "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 "If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution." -- Robert Sewell _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
