Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Found long lost modified files

Well they weren't really lost, I just wasn't sure which of the current 5812 files were ones that changed from the original software that I customized for a friend about three years ago. For the past three weeks or so I've been doing some forensics trying to recreate the sequence of changes, more or less, that I had gone through to customize the package involved. Turns out that just a bit more than one percent of the files we changed, more specifically it was 59 out of 5812. It took about an hour of poking around and some creative convoluted BASH one-liners to identify, isolate, correct and verify those files. Without the shell and without those one-liners the job would have been far more difficult. Now even the changes to those original files are captured in source control. Now I can safely proceed with the upgrading of the package for my friends site and the back-porting of my customizations.

Take this BASH, brother, may it serve you well ... or some other similar silliness

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