Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch and bookmark maintenance

[Aaron Bentley]

On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 23:47, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:54:01AM +0000, Angles Puglisi wrote:
[snip]
> >given the nature of
> > such html "bookmark" files, do you think arch would be effective at 
> > "merging"
> > changes from each machine's bookmarks into the other's?
> 
> No.
> 
> You need a domain-specific tool. diff/patch will not work usefully here.

Since these are, roughly speaking, XML files, I'm surprised.  Why would
diff/patch not work as well as they do for C source?  Or is it that you
expect more of XML merging tools than diff/patch can achive?

Aaron

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Aaron Bentley
Director of Technology
PanoMetrics, Inc.