Re: mergemaster broken?

From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 22:50:53 +0300
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 10:57:53AM -0800, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> Robert Watson wrote this message on Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 09:38 +0000:
> > So while I don't have opinions about the implementation details, I think 
> > what Ruslan is proposing is architecturally the right thing.  How to handle 
> > the command line argument, I don't have an opinion, except that user 
> > surprise is bad, so a new argument with some compatibility and a warning is 
> > probably better than changing "-m".
> 
> Why not detect etc as the last component of -m and print a nice little
> warning, and then remove /etc from the path?  (or adding .. if we end
> up with an empty path)..   and after a year or so, remove the warning
> and the compat code...  I doubt people are doing something really crazy
> like making foobarbaz a symlink to etc, and depending upon that..  If
> they are, they get what the deserve...
> 
Yes, I had the same idea.  An updated patch implements this.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru_at_FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer

Received on Mon Mar 27 2006 - 17:52:04 UTC

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