[vtkusers] [vtk-developers] ANNOUNCE: VTK 5.10.0-rc1 is available for download

[David Gobbi]

Your git-fu is stronger than mine :)

I did an "ls" of both releases followed by "diff" and then
used vim regexps to generate wiki-code.  If I'd know about
"git diff --name-status", then I could have skipped a couple steps.

 - David

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 9:22 AM, David E DeMarle
<dave.demarle at kitware.com> wrote:
> Thanks David, you just saved me both time and effort!
>
> I found these git tricks to be pretty useful for inspecting what
> happened in this release.
>
> * Show who changed what?
> git shortlog --no-merges --topo-order v5.8.0..v5.10.0-rc1
> -e for email address and -author args to that are also helpful
>
> * Shows percent of changes in each directory:
> git diff --dirstat v5.8.0..v5.10.0-rc1
>
> * Shows all files changes and type of change to them:
> git diff -w --name-status v5.8.0..v5.10.0-rc1
>
> * Both of these show only header files, so that you can see how many
> new, deleted and modified classes there are. It would be nice to dig
> further at the M files to tease out the API changes, if someone does
> please post the solution.
>
> git diff -w --name-status v5.8.0..v5.10.0-rc1 | grep "\.h" | grep -v
> Utilities | grep -v Testing | grep -v Examples | sort -u
>
> David E DeMarle
> Kitware, Inc.
> R&D Engineer
> 21 Corporate Drive
> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
> Phone: 518-881-4909
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 11:13 AM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 9:04 AM, David E DeMarle
>> <dave.demarle at kitware.com> wrote:
>>> Kitware and the VTK team are happy to announce that VTK 5.10 has
>>> entered the release candidate stage!
>>>
>>> You can find the source and binaries here:
>>> http://www.vtk.org/VTK/resources/software.html#cand
>>
>>
>> I've put a list of new classes (with doxygen links) on the wiki:
>> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Release5100_New_Classes
>>
>>  - David
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