Piston 1.4.0: piston diff, at long last

February 9th, 2008

Well, thanks to Graeme Mathieson, Piston finally sports a piston diff subcommand. This command allows you to know what changes you made vs what’s in the remote repository.

As usual, installation is pretty simple:

What does piston diff report ? Here it is:

Caveat: piston diff uses the command line version of diff. This means Windows users will need to install a compatible version, or write a wrapper script around some preferred tool that supports the same features.

What is Piston ?

Piston is a utility that eases vendor branch management. This is similar to svn:externals, except you have a local copy of the files, which you can modify at will. As long as the changes are mergeable, you should have no problems.

Visit Piston’s home page at http://piston.rubyforge.org/

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