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Re: CVS Update Behaviour


From: Greg A. Woods
Subject: Re: CVS Update Behaviour
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 15:13:36 -0500 (EST)

[ On Tuesday, February 26, 2002 at 00:27:36 (-0800), Paul Sander wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: CVS Update Behaviour
>
> Why bother with "patch" when "merge" is better?  Or even better yet,
> "cvs update"?

You haven't been paying attention, have you.  The answer to your
questions was what started this debate in the first place.

> Interesting, I just read the man page for patch again, and it
> doesn't mention diff3.  According to this, all that "patch" does
> is it takes the difference between one file and another, applies
> the difference to a copy of the first file to produce a copy of
> the second file.

And what can produce a "difference between one file and another"?  Why
'diff3' can!  Oh!  Wow!  What revalation!  (obviously it does a wee bit
more than that, but only slightly)

> This is a simple 2-way merge, which we all know is inferior to
> 3-way merges because they don't account for situations in which
> the delta is applied to something that isn't identical to the first
> file.

Hmmm.... so you really don't understand what 'diff3' does, eh?  RTFM my
friend, and then play some games with it.  Perhaps someday you'll see
the light.

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