On Sun, 17 Jun 2018 19:35:05 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > The problem (or multiple problems) here is that it doesn't say what is > being merged into what (no, its not symmetric), and to compound that it > doesn't just leave this file alone and quit or go on to the next file; > it shows some diff again. What does this new diff mean? I can't make > sense of it without answering my other questions. > > To clarify: I don't think this is simply a usability problem that can be > addressed by using better or more verbose English. I think there is a > "big picture", a concept of what is being done, and this concept has not > found its way into the documentation or the UI itself.
There are other config managers that handle this differently, if you don't like etc-update try another. I tried a few some years ago and settled on conf-update, others swear by cfg-update. conf-update lets you configure the diff and merge programs it uses but I stuck with the defaults except for using colordiff. Merging is interactive so you can choose whether you accept your old setting or the new default for each change. Like you, I treat my settings as the default and generally only merge in new additions to the config or changed defaults. -- Neil Bothwick Microbiology: staph only.
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