dpkg-mergechangelogs(1) — Linux manual page

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NAME top

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

SYNOPSIS top

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

DESCRIPTION top

       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 Algorithm::Merge is
       available — it's part of the package libalgorithm-merge-perl —
       otherwise you get a global conflict on the content of the entry).

       This program was introduced in dpkg 1.15.7.

OPTIONS top

       --merge-unreleased
           Ignore the version number when the entries are marked as
           UNRELEASED (since dpkg 1.21.0).

           This is useful when you have diverging development for
           versions that have not yet been released.  For instance 2.1-1
           is released, then development happens for the new 2.2-1 and
           then for 2.3-1, where it makes sense to just end with a
           coalesced entry for 2.3-1 including all the development done
           in 2.2-1.

       -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.

ENVIRONMENT top

       DPKG_COLORS
           Sets the color mode (since dpkg 1.18.5).  The currently
           accepted values are: auto (default), always and never.

       DPKG_NLS
           If set, it will be used to decide whether to activate Native
           Language Support, also known as internationalization (or
           i18n) support (since dpkg 1.19.0).  The accepted values are:
           0 and 1 (default).

LIMITATIONS top

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

INTEGRATION WITH GIT top

       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

COLOPHON top

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