On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 02:43:35PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Daniel Berlin wrote: > > > However, if you are satisfied with client-only diff (which is the main > > case when you'd be writing changelogs) working in alphabetical order, i > > should be able to wing that. > > Client-only diff is the main case. (For more general cases it should be > possible to write a utility to sort diffs after creation - into > alphabetical order for this purpose, but I've also thought topological > sort would be useful when generating release diffs (which are done direct > from source trees, not with cvs diff) to ensure that diffs to generated > files that aren't version controlled (and so not handled by gcc_update) > come after the diffs to their source files.)
This would be about ten lines of shell script using filterdiff(1) and lsdiff(1). -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC
