Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2020 17:48:17 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Per olof Ljungmark <peo@nethead.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: simple shell script to compare two dirs recursively Message-ID: <44y2jjwf2m.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <66b0d570-4e46-7971-5d30-33256feeda55@nethead.se> (Per olof Ljungmark's message of "Mon, 2 Nov 2020 22:44:40 %2B0100") References: <34dfc85a-b985-e31f-a6b2-cf14f1f56fd2@nethead.se> <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2011021932160.72530@fledge.watson.org> <20201102220603.3b69f35c@archlinux> <66b0d570-4e46-7971-5d30-33256feeda55@nethead.se>
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Per olof Ljungmark <peo@nethead.se> writes: > Thank you for your responses. > > It is to keep track of a Wordpress plugin that we must do changes to > in the php code, I'm just trying to figure out a way to apply our > changes after the plugin is updated and our alterations are > overwritten. > > In a way that is simple, that is. "Simple" can be in the eye of the beholder. "diff -r" is pretty simple for a lot of cases. There are a lot of other diff-like tools, each with its own features... For cases like this description (tracking local changes to a third-party piece of code), my first instinct is to use a version control system, but I'm already familiar with how to do that in my environments.
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