What's the best way of finding out what's changed and why?

2012-05-09 Thread Lewis Adam-VNQM87
I am trying to determine exactly what code changes have occurred between 2 different releases (including all releases in between). Ideally, I would like to end up with a list of patch and bug references per file. Are changes ever made that don't have a patch or bug reference? I have looked at the

Re: What's the best way of finding out what's changed and why?

2012-05-09 Thread Dave Shield
On 9 May 2012 12:12, Lewis Adam-VNQM87 adam.le...@cambiumnetworks.com wrote: I am trying to determine exactly what code changes have occurred between 2 different releases (including all releases in between). That's exactly what ChangeLog is for. It lists all the commit log messages, together

RE: What's the best way of finding out what's changed and why?

2012-05-09 Thread Lewis Adam-VNQM87
Okay, thanks Dave. I didn't look at the Git repository. Dissecting the ChangeLog, a typical couple of entries might be: 2011-09-22 Dave Shield d.t.shi...@liverpool.ac.uk * : commit c55f608f16f160f5e79dc057f8878def462973e1 Author: Dave Shield d.t.shi...@liverpool.ac.uk Date: Thu Sep 22

Re: What's the best way of finding out what's changed and why?

2012-05-09 Thread Dave Shield
On 9 May 2012 12:48, Lewis Adam-VNQM87 adam.le...@cambiumnetworks.com wrote: Dissecting the ChangeLog, a typical couple of entries might be: 2011-09-22  Dave Shield d.t.shi...@liverpool.ac.uk   * : commit c55f608f16f160f5e79dc057f8878def462973e1 Author: Dave  Shield

Re: What's the best way of finding out what's changed and why?

2012-05-09 Thread Robert Story
On Wed, 9 May 2012 06:12:18 -0500 Lewis wrote: LAV I am trying to determine exactly what code changes have occurred between LAV 2 different releases (including all releases in between). if you are in git, you can run git [--reverse] log V5-5-patches..V5-6-patches