On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Herbert Xu wrote: > 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 - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html