[ic] merge metadata question

[Simon Green]

maillists wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I just upgraded to IC 5.4 and I used the "Test Before You Upgrade" path.
>So far everything is fine, but I still have 4 or 5 catalogs to migrate
>over. (I did them one at a time with both IC servers running.) 
>
>My question is how to deal with the "Merge Metadata" issue. I have
>customized the admin UI quite a bit for the last catalogs that I want to
>upgrade and I don't want to loose any of the customizations (added
>custom fields to products, and userdb tables etc. In the admin UI I have
>lots of custom fields that my clients can edit. I know that I won't
>"loose" the fields in the tables, but I have lost some of my UI
>customizations. How do I insure that the admin UI won't change in any
>way except for new features.
>  
>
Depending on how big that changes you made are, try this:

1) Get a clean copy of the IC4 code
2) Do a diff between that and your code
3a) Prey and hope that the diff will patch cleanly with IC 5.4
3b) If 3a doesn't work, you'll need to manually edit the file

diff and patch are command line tools, btw (you probably knew that though)

  -- simon