On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:17:31 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)  wrote:

> on 04/10/2013 at 08:27 AM, Paul Gilmartin  said:
>
>>On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 08:52:55 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)  wrote:
>
>>>>>on 04/07/2013 at 04:57 PM, Sam Siegel  said:
>>>>>
>>>>>>diff3 allows a 3 way merge between the original source and 2
>>>>>>different updates to the original source.
>>>>>
>>>>>No; it merges two updates.
>
>ESPECIALLY the no part; it outputs disagreeing ranges of text, not an
>updated source file. Were that not the case, the man file would not be
>showing an example of piping the output to ed.
> 
Sam said diff3 _allows_ a 3 way merge, which is correct, not that it
_performs_ a 3-way merge, which you appear to be imputing to him
then disagreeing with.

-- gil

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