[Rd] Why R should never move to git

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 24/01/2018 7:29 PM, Gábor Csárdi wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 12:24 AM, Duncan Murdoch
> <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
>> Thanks, those instructions appear to have worked.
>>
>> For comparison purposes, the equivalent steps in svn would be
>>
>> svn diff -r PREV:HEAD --internal-diff > patchfile
>>
>> and then the patchfile could be sent to the maintainer.
> 
> If you just want the diff corresponding to the last commit,
> 
> git show
> 
> will print it for you. Or
> 
> git show keepclass
> 
> for a specific branch.

But that's only half the battle.  If I did that and emailed the diff to 
a maintainer, I'm guessing I'd be told I should put together a PR 
instead.  And as I found out, that's not easy, if I already have a fork 
of the repository that contains changes and I don't want to blow it away.

Duncan Murdoch