Using merge_config.sh

[Don Zickus]

On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 03:32:26PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > 
> > So I would be torn and lean away from it until the speed improves.  I know
> > if this makes it to RHEL people would complain and it would get ripped out
> > in favor of the old way.
> 
> If we're going on pure speed then sure.  There's no reason to replace
> what is working today with something that is much slower.  What I'm more
> interested in though, is either:
> 
> 1) Does the additional verification from merge_config.sh prove useful
> enough to warrant a slowdown?  I can see it being useful to make sure we
> don't screw something up on a rebase, etc.

Sure. I'll agree with that.

> 
> 2) Can merge.pl be adapted to produce similar output without making it
> much slower?
> 
> If I have to go with 2, I'll be replacing merge.pl with merge.py because
> I don't speak perl. ;)

It shouldn't be too hard if given to someone who knows python.  That is
probably worth pursuing upstream.

Cheers,
Don