Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Savannah recovery TODO

[Sylvain Beucler]

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.

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Sylvain