Summary:
Explain the **motivation** for making this change. What existing problem does the pull request solve?
To fixes#11330 and fixes#11334
Regarding to this command (using in `react-native-git-upgrade` - [cliEntry.js#L261](https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/react-native-git-upgrade/cliEntry.js#L261))
```bash
npm view react-native@latest peerDependencies.react version --json
```
The result from this command are not consistent across a different npm versions.
We better get a whole `package.json` file by calling (remove field and subfield option)
```
npm view react-native@latest --json
```
**Test plan (required)**
**Setup**
- Publish `react-native-git-upgrade` to `sinopia`
- `npm install -g react-native-git-upgrade`
- Test against multiple npm versions (`2.15.8` or `3.7.5` or `3.10.10` or ` 4.0.3`)
- `react-native init AwesomeApp --version 0.38.0 && cd AwesomeApp`
- `react-native-git-upgrade` and `react-native-git-upgrade 0.39.0` should be working properly
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Closes https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/11348
Differential Revision: D4305894
Pulled By: mkonicek
fbshipit-source-id: 36ea7846926b424f4dd63c77b47db5cb69285027
Summary:
The upgrading process based on Yeoman is a pain. For each file, Yeoman (or the brand new copyAndReplace solution a477aec) compares the newly generated content with the existing one and prompts the user if it differs, with very basic options: overwrite or skip.
I have digged into this problem and came with [rn-diff](https://github.com/ncuillery/rn-diff) (you may have read [this article](https://medium.com/ncuillery/easier-react-native-upgrades-with-rn-diff-5020b5c3de2d#.llvy2dym5)). This repository helps people to upgrade RN on their projects. An alternative upgrading process using `git apply` instead of Yeoman is described [here](https://github.com/ncuillery/rn-diff/blob/master/USAGE.md).
This PR is the integration of this process into the core. I got rid of the drawbacks mentioned in the link below in order to make it a clean, elegant, one-step operation.
This process is based on some Shell operations that:
- Generate the blank sources of both old and new versions
Closes https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/11110
Differential Revision: D4237107
Pulled By: mkonicek
fbshipit-source-id: 15e82e030b762415c925ccb2a62ddb354a6e18b9
Jirat K
Martin Konicek
Nicolas Cuillery