Re: Finally - sane NEWS information!

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Mark McLoughlin">

> Right, so I assume you must have some heuristic to figure the format of
> the NEWS entry so you can pull only the latest one. Just so we have an
> idea of how not to break it terribly, what is it ? :-)

It's absolutely stupid, but surprisingly robust:

  diff -u OLDS NEWS | sed '1,/@@/d;/@@/,//d;/^[^+]/d;s/^+//'

I have no idea why I didn't think of it earlier. ;-)

- Jeff

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