Richard Hartmann wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 08:45, Markus Heidelberg
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Richard Hartmann, 16.11.2008:
> >> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 20:36, Markus Heidelberg
> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >> > However, we would only want the file(s) with the modified-by defined to
> >> > use
> >> > this "union" merge driver and there only the line(s) with this content.
> >> > But
> >> > after looking into the Makefile, the simle "union" driver is not what we
> >> > want.
> >> > It doesn't help us to have multiple
> >> > CONF_ARGS = --with-modified-by="feature 1"
> >> > CONF_ARGS = --with-modified-by="feature 2"
> >> > among each other. We had to combine it to
> >> > CONF_ARGS = --with-modified-by="feature 1, feature 2"
> >>
> >> You can simply concat the strings into WITH_MODIFIED_BY and then
> >> feed that variable into CONF_ARGS.
> >
> > Of course, but I don't want to force any habits for the master branch into
> > the
> > patch branches. Someone only looking at a patch wonders why there is a new
> > variable WITH_MODIFIED_BY += "feature 1". I think you mean this syntax.
>
> Bram, would you be OK with a change which facilitates this? It would not be
> noticable to the general users (or pretty much anybody, for that matter),
> would not affect the compiled binaries in any way and it might help to track
> any problems from patched Vim versions in the future.
I wonder how you can do this without changing the distributed sources.
It's probably a good idea to use a mechanism like we have it for the
patches I send out. These patches always apply cleanly and still add
something to the :version output.
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