Merging configuration files

Since version 8.1, MobiFlight Connector can merge several configuration files together.

The way this works is worth a bit of explanation, so that you can follow a sensible workflow. There is one important thing to consider: When you merge configuration files, you cannot later "unmerge" them.

It is of course totally possible to have just a single configuration file that has everything on your home cockpit, but there are two use cases that benefit greatly from the functionality of config merging:

• Plane-specific configurations - If you have some panels that you use for all aircraft and then type-specific ones that are used only for certain planes, it would be nice to make any changes or updates to just one file instead of all of the different plane-specifig configs that use the same panel.
• If you contribute to, or build or use the openly designed panels and circuit boards using the MobiFlight panel design template and MobiFlight panel repository they might have configuration files assocociated with them, and those might get updated at times.

By using a very simple workflow you can use "Merge config" to your advantage while maintaining separate config files for different aircraft that you edit and update.

• Consider each separate file as the "source" where all changes happen.
• Any files you actually use for sim flying, are merges.
• Merged files are disposable - when you make a change, you just merge all needed separate files again and save over your previous merge.

It helps if you use some file naming convention, like S-panelname for "separate files" and then merged-aircraftname for the merged file.