Re: [PATCH 6/7] Implement 'm' option for conffile merging during conflict resolution

2011-05-06 Thread Jonathan Nieder
sean finney wrote: > On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 03:19:09AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> In the general case, the right merge result may depend on the content >> of other files (for example, if the user renamed a file so the new >> pristine version should be renamed, too). Luckily I don't think t

Re: [PATCH 6/7] Implement 'm' option for conffile merging during conflict resolution

2011-05-06 Thread sean finney
On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 03:19:09AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Is "diff3 -m" the state of the art for this? Well, it will do to > start. In the long term maybe some people will want to use some other > tool to perform the merge, like RCS "merge" or something Config::Model > based. I think a

[PATCH 6/7] Implement 'm' option for conffile merging during conflict resolution

2011-05-06 Thread Jonathan Nieder
From: Sean Finney Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:27:36 +0100 The conflict resolution prompt has been updated with a new option for automatic merging: M : attempt to automatically merge the differences This functions by performing a 3-way diff using the new conffile, the currently-insta

Re: [PATCH 6/7] Implement 'm' option for conffile merging during conflict resolution

2010-02-08 Thread sean finney
On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 08:51:27PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > On a successful merge, the merge output replaces the conffile, and dpkg > > continues as if the admin had selected to keep the old conffile. On merge > > failure the admin is informed of the failure and the the conflict prompt > > i

Re: [PATCH 6/7] Implement 'm' option for conffile merging during conflict resolution

2010-02-07 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 08:27:36 +0100, Sean Finney wrote: > The conflict resolution prompt has been updated with a new option for > automatic merging: > > M : attempt to automatically merge the differences > > This functions by performing a 3-way diff using the new conffile, the

[PATCH 6/7] Implement 'm' option for conffile merging during conflict resolution

2009-12-13 Thread Sean Finney
The conflict resolution prompt has been updated with a new option for automatic merging: M : attempt to automatically merge the differences This functions by performing a 3-way diff using the new conffile, the currently-installed conffile, and the pristine version of the conffile fr