Am Sonntag 16 November 2008 21:18:44 schrieb ext Harry Putnam: > Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Or maybe just by experience in using the tool it would get handier > >> and faster.... > > > > Just doing the automatic stuff, where no user intervention is involved > > _is_ blazingly fast. How fast you are in running the diff/merge tool of > > _your_ choice is, well, up to you. > > Maybe, but as you know it defaults to xxdiff. That of course is not > to say it cannot be changed but by default the merge tool is slow and > clunky.
That's true, of course. But any other config file update tool you choose will
be affected by the merge tool it uses. But this merge tool only comes into
play when the update can't be done automatically. So to tell wether the update
tool as such is fast or not (compared to the others), one should leave the
merge tool out of the equation.
OTOH, you can always change the merge tool. I use kdiff3 (because I didn't
like xxdiff either), which is also not the fastest one, but IMHO the best you
can get. YMMV, though.
> >> Using xxdiff is pretty clunky and slow I thought. I would not
> >> describe it as blazingly fast.
I did not, never ever, describe xxdiff as blazingly fast. I was referring to
cfg-update only.
> > You were not talking about xxdiff, you wrote that cfg-update was slow.
>
> You seem to imply that cfg-update is independent of a diff tool. It
> does not appear to be able to merge anything on its own.
Yes, it is. As long as no conflicts arise. That's when the merge tool comes
in.
> So to speak of cfg-update minus a diff tool as fast/slow seems a
> little off the mark.
s/diff/merge/
> I'm curious about the backup setup. Have you had occasion to go
> back into the database to pull out an old config?
No, not yet.
Bye...
Dirk
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