Just did a gitpull got an update diff shows 1464 lines?

[Michael D. Setzer II]

On 30 Apr 2026 at 15:14, Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote:

From:           	Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia 
<guille.rodriguez at gmail.com>
Date sent:      	Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:14:26 +0200
Subject:        	Re: Just did a gitpull got an update diff shows 1464 
lines?
To:             	mikes at guam.net
Copies to:      	busybox at busybox.net

> Hi Michael,
> 
> El mié, 29 abr 2026 a las 15:18, Michael D. Setzer II via busybox
> (<busybox at busybox.net>) escribió:
> > Found this with diffstat
> > cat diffstat
> >  .git/HEAD                                                            |    1
> [...]
> 
> If you want to compare a git tree with a snapshot, you probably should
> skip the ".git" directory.
> It is an internal directory used by git to manage the repository, and
> should not normally be present in a snapshot, so including it would
> only introduce noise in the diff.
> 
> In any case, if you want to check what changed recently in a git repo,
> the easiest is just "git log".

Thanks for the git log command. It gives info, but does a lot more 
than comparing the snapshot files. going back a lot farther.
Currently the 3 different files in snapshot
2669360 Mar 31 10:20 busybox-20260331.tar.bz2
2669851 Apr 13 10:20 busybox-20260413.tar.bz2
2668517 Apr 30 10:20 busybox-snapshot.tar.bz2

Just saw the git pull had updates, but not a new snapshot, so 
comparing the snapshot directory and the busybox directory after 
git pull.

On another minor issues. Ran the runtest and get 6 Fail and some 
Skip ad untested results. 
Looking at FAIL a couple seem to be caused by my timezone.
Machine running in Guam with ChST timezone. Test seems the be 
checking that the first two letters of timezone are A-Z, so the lower 
case h causes it to fail.

FAIL: date-works
FAIL: ls-l-works
FAIL: ls-s-works
FAIL: sed embedded NUL
FAIL: sed nonexistent label
FAIL: sed NUL in command

Thanks. Saw a number of git pull show updates.
cat diffstat  3/31 compared to latest
 archival/libarchive/Kbuild.src    |    6 +++---
 include/libbb.h                   |    4 ++--
 libbb/ioloop.c                    |   31 ++++++++++++++++---------------
 networking/httpd.c                |    6 +++---
 networking/telnet.c               |   16 ++++++++--------
 networking/telnetd.c              |   38 
+++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 scripts/randomtest                |    4 ++++
 scripts/randomtest.loop           |    5 +++++
 shell/hush.c                      |    8 ++++----
 testsuite/start-stop-daemon.tests |    2 ++
 util-linux/fdisk.c                |    4 +++-
 11 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)

Comparing 04/13 with latest
# cat save/diffstat 
 archival/libarchive/Kbuild.src    |    6 +++---
 libbb/ioloop.c                    |    1 +
 networking/httpd.c                |    6 +++---
 scripts/randomtest                |    4 ++++
 scripts/randomtest.loop           |    5 +++++
 shell/hush.c                      |    8 ++++----
 testsuite/start-stop-daemon.tests |    2 ++
 util-linux/fdisk.c                |    4 +++-
 8 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)


Thanks again.

> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia
> guille.rodriguez at gmail.com


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