Re: [Context] reporting changes in minimals

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? Set up two directories, one with the older release and one with the newer one, and use rsync -av --progress --delete to copy the content of the newest version to the oldest one; rsync should generate a list of files to be added or deleted. Of course this has the drawback of temporarily needing two copies of the entire tree, but we then can take advantage of rsync's capabilities. Arthur