Re: Creating diff from 2.6.16 from cryptodev-2.6 git tree

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Jun 30, 2006, 02:44 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606291943010.12404@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060630023228.GA28850@gondor.apana.org.au>

On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Herbert Xu wrote:

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> On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 07:25:01PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > The easiest by far is if you only care about a certain sub-directory. 
> > Then, assuming the branch "crypto" is the top-most commit of the cryptodev 
> > repo, just do
> > 
> > 	git diff v2.6.16..crypto -- crypto/
> 
> Yes, you should always do something like this when backporting to make
> sure that you haven't missed patches merged in ways that you didn't
> anticipate.
> 
> Although I'm not aware of any such patches in the time frame that Michal
> has in mind.

Note that this is why

	git log -p --full-diff v2.6.16.. crypto/

is so great. It will show everything that touched that subdirectory, along with the incidentals. I think that in this case, that's exactly what Michal wants.

		Linus