On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 10:30:28AM -0800, Enji Cooper wrote: > >> On Jan 4, 2021, at 10:19, Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com> wrote: >> >> mergemaster has been on its way out since well before the switch to git. >> It's been disfavored for at least a decade and basically unmaintained in >> the base for maybe last 5 years. Apart from major breakage, only doc >> changes have happened in that time. > > Adding to this: it has no maintainer, it’s less featureful, and it lacks tests. Once I switched to etcupdate a few years back I never looked back at mergemaster. > > I honestly think it should be deprecated in 13.x and removed in 14.x. It’s been several major releases since it’s been unofficially deprecated. > > -Enji > For something that has been disfavored for a decade, unmaintained for at least 5 years, and now seemly unofficially deprecated, it seems strange that /usr/src/UPDATING does not mention etcupdate in the COMMON ITEMS section. % svn info UPDATING | grep -i vision Revision: 367909 % svn blame UPDATING ... 64477 imp To rebuild everything and install it on the current system. 64477 imp ----------------------------------------------------------- ... 262619 jmg mergemaster -Fp [5] 262619 jmg mergemaster -Fi [4] % svn log -r 262619 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r262619 | jmg | 2014-02-28 11:51:47 -0800 (Fri, 28 Feb 2014) | 3 lines since -F is safe, and an update from 10-HEAD to 10-STABLE is sooo bloody anoying w/o it.. recommend people use -F too... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ etcupdate first appeared in the tree on 2012-07-13 (r238423) -- SteveReceived on Mon Jan 04 2021 - 17:59:22 UTC
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