[Gnu-arch-users] Re: tagline considered harmful?

[Jan Hudec]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 10:48:48AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> Tom Lord <address@hidden> writes:
> > I prefer that it not be the default, but a --forward option to various
> > merging commands would be fine.
> 
> Could it use a different name that `--forward', though?  I find
> the name --forward confusing enough with patch, which is pretty
> low-level, but I think it would be even more odd in a higher-level
> context like arch.
> 
> Something nice and obvious like `--ignore-patch-duplicates' or
> something would be nice.
> 
> BTW, patch -N leaves around .rej files for rejected duplicates, without
> any obvious indication that's what they are; I'm not sure whether that's
> the right thing or not for arch...

It does not look like the right thing to me.

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