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