On Thursday 31 August 2006 10:12, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > These are files which have "too many" helpful comments or examples > in them, and which I have to modify on every single machine I ever > bring up. So *every* time one of these changes, I have to stop and > stare at the diff in the mergemaster step, and 99% of the time the > change is just to fix or improve some comment. And in many cases, > the change is to some line that I remove in my custom copy. Now > all of those changes seem to be good changes, but they are still > an annoyance when it comes to merging in my local changes.
This is yet another reason why etcmerge (3 way merge) is more useful for updating configuration files. That said I agree that moving the example files to where examples should live is a good idea. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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