Thanks, Demian! Nice technique and nicely documented.
Peter > On Jul 23, 2015, at 1:51 PM, Demian Katz <demian.k...@villanova.edu> wrote: > > Hello, > > I've just solved a problem that has been bothering me for several years, and > I thought I would share it with this group in case anyone else finds it > helpful. > > There are several software packages out there that encourage you to implement > customizations by copying files out of the "core" into a "local" directory, > and then modifying the copies. This pattern is useful for several reasons, > but one major disadvantage is that, when you update the core, you have to > manually check and update all of your local copies. > > However, with the magic of Git, diff3 and a little Bash scripting, I've > figured out a way to automatically propagate changes from core files into > local copies of those files (as long as everything is named consistently). > This blog post details the solution: > > http://blog.library.villanova.edu/libtech/2015/07/23/automatically-updating-locally-customized-files-with-git/ > > The answer is actually pretty simple, but it took me an awfully long time to > come up with it! I hope this is of some use to others. Please let me know if > you have any questions! > > - Demian
