On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 07:25:01PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > The easiest by far is if you only care about a certain sub-directory.
> > Then, assuming the branch "crypto" is the top-most commit of the cryptodev
> > repo, just do
> >
> > git diff v2.6.16..crypto -- crypto/
>
> Yes, you should always do something like this when backporting to make
> sure that you haven't missed patches merged in ways that you didn't
> anticipate.
>
> Although I'm not aware of any such patches in the time frame that Michal
> has in mind.
Note that this is why
git log -p --full-diff v2.6.16.. crypto/
is so great. It will show everything that touched that subdirectory, along
with the incidentals. I think that in this case, that's exactly what
Michal wants.
Linus
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