include separate directory for file changes between versions

I think it would be really handy if you added a separate directory to the root of the zip that contained just the affected files between the last version and newest version. That way everyone that is using the most recent version can look at the change list and if they have not modified any files they can simply drop the whole package into their install instead of going through and doing it one by one. Or merge the modified files and then drop the whole package in.

We stopped doing any form of "just the changes only" release several years ago because hundreds of people would go and install the 1.5.1-to-1.5.2 set of changed files on top of their 1.3.8 site and wonder why the world was broken.

If it was only 1 or 2 people it wouldn't have mattered. But it was hundreds. And supporting those people became a full time task alone.

I agree with your sentiment. I used to rely on a "changed-files-subset" zip myself. But, now that I use merge tools all the time I find merging is vastly more efficient than using a changed-files-subset anyway.

Hahaha, OK, understood. I thought that might be the case. Thanks anyway!