creating a patch from cvs
specifically I wanted to create a patch equal to the changes between two versions of Drupal - but it turns out that a packaging script adds some info to releases that isn’t in the cvs version so this doesn’t quite do what I wanted.
it’s still useful though …
checkout the current version
generate the patch as a diff between the previos version and this one
optionally run a diff to compare the two versions (cvs and svn) to check they are the same
cvs -z6 -d:pserver:anonymous:anonymous@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal \
checkout -d drupal5 -r DRUPAL-5-6 drupal
cd drupal
cvs diff -N -u -rDRUPAL-5-5 -r DRUPAL-5-6 > ../drupal-5-5-to-5-6.txt
cd ..
diff -r drupal-cvs/ drupal | grep -v .svn | grep -v CVS | less
In eclipse open the svn drupal project - go to teams - apply patch
and (except for the packaging stuff) you have an updated drupal for your svn repository.