On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 18:11 -0400, Daniel Micay wrote:
It's a mailing list, we don't care how many years of experience you claim to have.
Exactly. I don't care about you either. But read below.
I only care that you're telling people to waste their time by suggesting they do merges with pen and paper instead of tools in the repositories supporting the workflow of a merge.
There is no single solution to all problems. If you only have to merge two lines, using something like meld or vimdiff is a waste. If you are merging a multi-file patch, you'd be mad to try to do it by hand if you can do it with an automation tool. Each problem has a proper solution and it is not necessarily yours. What is incredibly sad is your boorish, borderline behavior. If you know what is better for the health of this mailing list, you will stop now. And as I said before, you win by default. What else do you need?