Re: Idea for reducing planning time

> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> >> If you like I'll post the patch, but it strikes me as a waste of list
> >> bandwidth --- anyone who is likely to actually review it is perfectly
> >> capable of doing cvs diff for themselves ...
> 
> > Posting patch is only useful if you want people to review it.  They are
> > more likely to if you send it to patches, already diff'ed.  In fact, how
> > do you pull out a patch set from CVS?  You have to use -D and specify a
> > date/time range, right?
> 
> That's a good point --- there doesn't seem to be any real easy way of
> extracting a set of changes to different files except to use -D.  And
> even that doesn't do anything to separate unrelated patches applied at
> about the same time.
> 
> For the record, you can get a diff of this kind with a command like
> 
>     cvs diff -c -D '2000-12-14 17:00' -D '2000-12-14 18:00'
> 
> executed in the top level of the tree you want to search.

Shame there isn't a -u (user) option supported by diff.

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