Hello James,
* James Youngman wrote on Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 11:34:42PM CEST:
>
> My rationale is that the big-lost-of-things-to-do works fine for
> first-time adopters, but for those who routinely run it, there is no
> sense of incremental change; there's no easy way of noticing that an
> extra recommendation has appeared.
gnulib-tool has a nice line-based output, making it amenable to
comparison tools. I fear to be pointing out the obvious if I suggest
putting in import-gnulib/bootstrap something like this:
gnulib-tool --update | tee new-gnulib-output
test -f old-gnulib-output && {
echo "gnulib-tool output has changed:"
diff -u old-gnulib-output new-gnulib-output
}
# stop here for ACK of differences?
mv new-gnulib-output old-gnulib-output
(Or post-process the output with sed to only catch differences in the
recommendation section.)
Cheers,
Ralf
