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Re: reporting changes in minimals

 

On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 17:47, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
>> I used to have a shell script based on ls: ls -l ran before and after
>> with output to disk, then I emailed myself a unified diff of the two
>> files. Not so easy to review maybe, but very simple to set up.
>
>  Can't we use rsync to report the changes?

It should be doable in some circumstances, but not in others. For
example, I cannot imagine using rsync to report that
"web2c-2010-w32.tar.bz2" doesn't exist on Akira's server any more.

When I think a bit ... the most elegant way to review the changes
would be some JS-based HTML page where one could open & close "tabs"
with changes (so that one still has), for example:

- differences from Akira's server (4)
  (and then one can open it to see which files have been changes)
- new versions of ConTeXt (3)
  (and then one can open it to see which versions have been uploaded)
- fonts (300)
  (300 files have been changed; open to see which ones)

but then it would take me too much time to figure out:
- where to store the data (database?)
- how to create a nice html with appropriate javascript

Mojca



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