[arch-general] CLI diffing tool other than Vim?

phanisvara listmail at phanisvara.com
Tue Jul 30 05:40:37 EDT 2013


On Tuesday 30 Jul 2013 10:31:03 Paul Gideon Dann wrote:
> > nano, or mc with it's in-built editor.
> 
> They don't have a diffing/merging mode, do they?

no; i thought for somebody not used to managing arch, it would be 
better to do things manually, or not at all. 

often you can leave .pacnew files alone w/o anything bad happening. 
otherwise, before merging, it's better to read thru' the files and 
understand what's happening, was my idea.

-- 
phani.


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