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First, the result is not necessarily an accurate representation of the new Drupal core, because it doesn't address moved or deleted files, only added and changed ones. Second, it will overwrite any changes you've made to core. Yes, I know this should never ever happen because you should never ever hack core. Still, it overwrites without asking, when a manual merge is what's really called for.
Has anyone else solved this differently? I have a method that has worked almost perfectly that I'll write more about next week.
Update I
For an example of moved/deleted files in Drupal core, and the problems they might cause, please direct your attention to the release announcement for Drupal 5:
"Because the directory structure in Drupal changed, it is recommended not to extract Drupal 5.0 on top of your existing installation. Start with a fresh copy instead, and copy over your custom modules, themes and configuration file."
With version 5 of core, .module files were moved into their own respective folders with .info files. But upgrading from 4.7 to 5 this way would leave old versions of all the core modules sitting in the modules/ directory.
Update II
About Drupal Sun
Drupal Sun is an Evolving Web project. It allows you to:
- Do full-text search on all the articles in Drupal Planet (thanks to Apache Solr)
- Facet based on tags, author, or feed
- Flip through articles quickly (with j/k or arrow keys) to find what you're interested in
- View the entire article text inline, or in the context of the site where it was created
See the blog post at Evolving Web