 | | | How to create a 'patch ' with full files? | How to create a 'patch ' with full files? 2005-07-25 - By Garrick Staples
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On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:45:43PM +0200, wolf2k5 alleged:
> So, when I need to apply some changes to the web application, I copy
> all the files (preserving the directory structure) to a new directory
> and edit the files.
>
> When I am finished with the modifications, I issue a recursive "diff"
> to get a list of the modified files, e.g.:
>
> # diff -q -r rev0 rev1
> Files rev0/subdir/license.txt and rev1/subdir/license.txt differ
> Files rev0/test.txt and rev1/test.txt differ
>
> Then I manually copy the modified files (preserving the directory
> structure) into a new directory, create a tar archive and send it to
> the system administrator for deployment on production server.
>
> Is there any way to automate the last step of this process (figuring
> out the modified files and putting them in a directory)?
tar has a handy -T option, which can read a list of files to include in a new
tarball. It can even read this list from stdin:
diff ... | awk ... | tar cvf foo.tar -T -
Also note find's -cnewer and tar's --newer-mtime options.
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Garrick Staples, Linux/HPCC Administrator
University of Southern California
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