On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 18:11:05 -0400 Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Pedro Alejandro López-Valencia <palopezv@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com> wrote:
There's absolutely no part of the merging process `vimdiff` is hiding from you. You're enamoured with doing tedious, repetitive work but most of us would rather invest a few minutes in learning a more powerful tool or writing a bit of code than wasting our time.
And you are enamoured with trying desperately to prove random, unknown people in the internet that you are right, because you have being given the divine right to be always correct as dispensed to you by God.
Child, I stopped doing that several decades ago. You win by default.
It's a mailing list, we don't care how many years of experience you claim to have. 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.
Please guys... you only add more work for the moderators. FWIW, in my experience for simple configuration files, merging .pacnew's is easiest with a usual "diff -u a.conf a.conf.pacnew | vim -". It gives you a nice colored diff similar to what you get from git or mercurial. On the other hand, for large updates, e.g. samba 3.x -> samba 4.x, it is much faster to just recreate your config. Cheers, L. -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key: 0x164B5A6D Fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D