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Am Sonntag 16 November 2008 21:18:44 schrieb ext Harry Putnam: |
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> Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@××××××.de> writes: |
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> >> Or maybe just by experience in using the tool it would get handier |
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> >> and faster.... |
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> > Just doing the automatic stuff, where no user intervention is involved |
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> > _is_ blazingly fast. How fast you are in running the diff/merge tool of |
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> > _your_ choice is, well, up to you. |
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> Maybe, but as you know it defaults to xxdiff. That of course is not |
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> to say it cannot be changed but by default the merge tool is slow and |
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> clunky. |
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That's true, of course. But any other config file update tool you choose will |
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be affected by the merge tool it uses. But this merge tool only comes into |
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play when the update can't be done automatically. So to tell wether the update |
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tool as such is fast or not (compared to the others), one should leave the |
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merge tool out of the equation. |
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OTOH, you can always change the merge tool. I use kdiff3 (because I didn't |
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like xxdiff either), which is also not the fastest one, but IMHO the best you |
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can get. YMMV, though. |
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> >> Using xxdiff is pretty clunky and slow I thought. I would not |
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> >> describe it as blazingly fast. |
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I did not, never ever, describe xxdiff as blazingly fast. I was referring to |
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cfg-update only. |
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> > You were not talking about xxdiff, you wrote that cfg-update was slow. |
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> You seem to imply that cfg-update is independent of a diff tool. It |
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> does not appear to be able to merge anything on its own. |
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Yes, it is. As long as no conflicts arise. That's when the merge tool comes |
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in. |
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> So to speak of cfg-update minus a diff tool as fast/slow seems a |
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> little off the mark. |
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s/diff/merge/ |
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> I'm curious about the backup setup. Have you had occasion to go |
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> back into the database to pull out an old config? |
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No, not yet. |
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Bye... |
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Dirk |
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