I decided to just page back in time over and over through the github interface until I found the commit that way, and generated the diff by adding ".diff" on the end of the URL. Not the right way to do it, I know -- but it worked.
<https://github.com/llvm-mirror/libcxx/commit/b2e9337b06425b4af554651d5f2fa65615eb009f.diff> Happy to learn the " right way" when anyone has time. Thanks, K On 2017-12-03, at 12:28 PM, Ken Cunningham wrote: > I'm getting stuck generating a diff file for the changes made in revison > 307461 of libcxx, so I can backport that into llvm-4.0 to fix the build of > libcxx for PowerPC. > > <http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?view=revision&revision=307461> > > I have checked out the llvm, libcxx, and libcxxabi sources using svn. > In the projects/libcxx directory, I tried > > svn diff -r 307460:307461 > but that gives me "svn: E175013: Access to > '/svn/llvm-project/!svn/vcc/default' forbidden" > > so I've tried > > svn diff -r 307460:307461 http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/libcxx/trunk > svn diff -r 307460:307461 http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/libcxx/trunk . > svn diff -r http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/libcxx/trunk@307460 > http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/libcxx/trunk@307461 > > but that all gives a similar error. > > I know this must be easy, otherwise nobody would be using svn. > > I thought about using the github sources, but finding svn revision 307461 for > libcxx in github is not simple either. > > Open to ideas. > > Thanks, > > Ken
