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dpkg-mergechangelogs(1)		  dpkg suite	       dpkg-mergechangelogs(1)

NAME
       dpkg-mergechangelogs - 3-way merge of debian/changelog files

SYNOPSIS
       dpkg-mergechangelogs [option...] old new-a new-b [out]

DESCRIPTION
       This  program  will use the 3 provided versions of the Debian changelog
       to generate a merged changelog file. The resulting changelog is	stored
       in  the	file out or output to the standard output if that parameter is
       not given.

       Each entry is identified by its version number and they are assumed  to
       be  not	conflicting,  they  are	 simply	 merged in the right order (by
       decreasing version number). When --merge-prereleases is used, the  part
       of  the	version	 number	 after	the  last  tilde  is  dropped  so that
       1.0-1~exp1 and 1.0-1~exp5 are considered to be the same entry. When the
       same  version  is  available  in both new-a and new-b, a standard line-
       based  3-way  merge  is	attempted  (provided  that  the	 module	 Algo‐
       rithm::Merge   is  available  —	it's  part  of	the  package  libalgo‐
       rithm-merge-perl — otherwise you get a global conflict on  the  content
       of the entry).

OPTIONS
       -m, --merge-prereleases
	      Drop  the	 part  after the last tilde in the version number when
	      doing version comparison to identify if two entries are supposed
	      to be the same or not.

	      This  is useful when you keep using the same changelog entry but
	      you increase its version number  regularly.  For	instance,  you
	      might  have  2.3-1~exp1,	2.3-1~exp2,  ...  until	 the  official
	      release 2.3-1 and they are all the same changelog entry that has
	      evolved over time.

       --help Show the usage message and exit.

       --version
	      Show the version and exit.

LIMITATIONS
       Anything	 that  is  not	parsed	by  Dpkg::Changelog is lost during the
       merge.  This might include stuff like  vim  modelines,  comments	 which
       were not supposed to be there, etc.

INTEGRATION WITH GIT
       If  you	want  to use this program to merge Debian changelog files in a
       git repository, you have first  to  register  a	new  merge  driver  in
       .git/config or ~/.gitconfig:

	[merge "dpkg-mergechangelogs"]
	    name = debian/changelog merge driver
	    driver = dpkg-mergechangelogs -m %O %A %B %A

       Then  you  have	to  setup the merge attribute for the debian/changelog
       file  either  in	 .gitattributes	 in  the  repository  itself,  or   in
       .git/info/attributes:

	debian/changelog merge=dpkg-mergechangelogs

Debian Project			  2011-08-14	       dpkg-mergechangelogs(1)
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