On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 05:29:21PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote: > The plan is to re-checkout everything from May 27th (which Ward is > currently doing) and then provide a diff for projects to recommit. > > If you're going to go the trouble of creating the diff, then why not > apply it, instead of making every individual admin apply it?
I can do the former without thinking: for i in *; do diff -ru /someotherplace/$i $i > $i.diff; done The latter is more complicated (faking commits, handling deletions, etc.), is altering data (so there's risk) and maybe people want to reproduce commits a bit more nicely. -- Sylvain
