RE: cvswrappers - any better suggestions ?

[Paul Sander]

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>> Inserting a registrar into CVS to allow shops and users to specify the
>> particular tool required to perform a merge is not a fundamental change to
>> the CVS design, but it is a small generalization.

>Yes, but one that would require a rather drastic revision to the
>repository format.

>>  And it's one that will
>> greatly benefit the CVS community in general.

>I'm not so sure.  If it were so it would have been done long ago and
>offered back to the community.  As it is we don't even have a sample
>implementation to show to the community and to prove that such a forward
>change in the repository format would succeed.

co -p <common-ancestor-revision> file > .file.base
co -p <other-contributor> file > .file.contrib
my-merge-tool --base .file.base --contributor .file.contrib file

This algorithm can be easily implemented with CVS (in fact, I believe it
already is).  And it does not require any change to the repository format,
other than providing a means to specify what my-merge-tool really is.

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