Re: CURRENT, usr/src on git, howto "mergemaster"?

On Mon, 4 Jan 2021 12:57:43 +0000, Matthew Seaman <matthew_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On 04/01/2021 12:29, David Wolfskill wrote:
> 
> > Caveat: Since the switch, I have yet to encounter a case where I needed
> > to merge a change in (e.g., because of a newly-created user, or there
> > was a commit to /etc/crontab or /etc/newsyslog.conf).  I may find things
> > rather "more interesting" when that happens; we shall see.
> 
> The process of merging changes in etcupdate(1) is essentially identical 
> to merging in mergemaster(1) -- the difference being that typically 
> etcupdate(1) will run to completion without any user intervention 
> needed, or else it will flag up that there are unresolved differences to 
> merge and flag to the user to run `etcupdate resolve` as a separate command.
> 
> This is much more time efficient than the typical mergemaster(1) 
> procedure, and I find it lends itself much more effectively to 
> automation through eg. ansible.  (ie. you can just run the first 
> `etcupdate` through automation across all of your server inventory, and 
> then go round and manually resolve anything that needs it.)
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
> 
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after checking out stable/12 with git, here a
#   cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/mergemaster
#  sh ./mergemaster.sh -piPcv

and then answering 'l' for left for most merges
it seems to have sufficed. 
This was before installworld. 

In case that helps.
I keep that command parameter in /etc/motd for each time around lookup.