NYMERGE(1)

✨ NYMERGE(1) — General Commands Manual ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the glow-up of nymerge, a whole entire tool for updating and merging specialized-format patches 💅 consider this your group chat briefing fr fr.

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🦋 NAME 🦋

nymerge — the tool that updates and merges specialized-format patches, no cap ✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

nymerge merge old new options [ print ] [ .go ]

like, that's the whole vibe. read on 👑

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so nymerge is a tool in the Nypatchy suite of programs for working with Patchy Master Files (PAM files) — peep nypatchy(1) for the lore. specifically, it can update a PAM file old with a new version number and date/time stamp, and optionally also merge in updated source code from a separate PAM file merge, then save the result to file new 🎀

and the default file extension of these three files is presumed to be ".car" — periodt.

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🧚 USAGE 🧚

the merge file merge may be replaced with "-" if there is literally nothing to merge, bestie. print is the file to which informational output should be written (the default is standard output if you omit it, obviously), and options is a sequence of single-character flags 🔥

the command should be ended with .go unless one wants to enter the Nypatchy interactive shell — yes that's the main character moment, iykyk 😭

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⭐ OPTIONS ⭐

okay so heads up: options should be given as a single string of characters with no space separation and no use of the - character (except that it can be used in place of the options field if no options are desired at all). alphabetic options are not case-sensitive — lowercase or uppercase, she doesn't care 💅

• F — update only the first PAM file title. just the first one, bestie.
• H — print help information only. that's it, that's the whole job 🫶
• P — log only the patch names, not the decks.
• Q — "quick" — do not log printing of patch or deck names. speedy queen behavior 🦋
• U — update version/date/time on all PAM titles found on the file.
• + — inhibit the initial page-eject. no yeet 💀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

fcasplit(1), nycheck(1), nydiff(1), nyindex(1), nylist(1), nypatchy(1), nyshell(1), nysynopt(1), nytidy(1), yexpand(1)

the reference manual for the Nypatchy suite of programs is available in compressed PostScript format at the following URL, bookmark it bestie:

http://wwwasdoc.web.cern.ch/wwwasdoc/psdir/p5refman.ps.gz

also, running the command nymerge help .no gives some brief help on usage — tiny little cheat sheet, obsessed ✨

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Kevin McCarty <kmccarty@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others) — icon behavior honestly. it is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later (at your choice). 💜

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🍓 COPYRIGHT 🍓

Copyright (C) Kevin B. McCarty, 2008.

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and that's the tea, bestie 🎀 this page you just read? nymerge(1) from the General Commands Manual, dated Mar 12, 2008 — yeah she's vintage but she ate. mwah 💋