On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Frank Cox wrote:
On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 08:55 -0400, R P Herrold wrote:
First, am I going about this the right way?
no -- Usually one unrolls the old tree, applies the patches to the old; and then unrolls the new in a directory 'next to' the first, and diffs from a point above the top of each
What would that gain me? Following this procedure would get me a big diff showing the differences between the old (patched) version and the new (unpatched) version. But that would contain a list of all of the stuff in the new version which probably doesn't need to be changed, and revert the patches from the previous patched version. In other words, unless I'm looking at this backward somehow, I don't see the point.
The point is to see where changes are happening, and to be able to cherry pick in a migration toward the latest [but being able to spot the deltas from the prior version], which, as I understood it, was your goal
I did not suggest applying that resulting diff, as a patch without review, but rather as a means to get visibility as to what changes were being 'upstreamed'
-- Russ herrold