Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch and bookmark maintenance

[Andrew Suffield]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 09:20:12AM -0500, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 23:47, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:54:01AM +0000, Angles Puglisi wrote:
> [snip]
> > >given the nature of
> > > such html "bookmark" files, do you think arch would be effective at 
> > > "merging"
> > > changes from each machine's bookmarks into the other's?
> > 
> > No.
> > 
> > You need a domain-specific tool. diff/patch will not work usefully here.
> 
> Since these are, roughly speaking, XML files, I'm surprised.  Why would
> diff/patch not work as well as they do for C source?  Or is it that you
> expect more of XML merging tools than diff/patch can achive?

They're SGML files. And think about what the typical modifications are
to a bookmark file.

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