Agreed. Furthermore, if I have 10+ versions of a patch, when getting feedback knowing for with version would be handy, having a single name makes this correlation difficult.
Thxs. Alejandro [PS: I know, I should code better not have to go thru several versions] On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Ravi Prakash <ravihad...@gmail.com> wrote: > But what if I want to see an incremental diff between two patches? I don't > want to review the whole patch everytime. Maybe I just want to re-review > the > changes made to a patch. I would then have sort the patches manually using > time. I think its better to have version numbers in that case > > > On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Doug Cutting <cutt...@apache.org> wrote: > > > On 09/09/2011 07:27 AM, Ted Dunning wrote: > > > If you post the same patch with the same name, JIRA helps you out by > > greying > > > all the earlier versions out. > > > > Indeed. That's the best practice, not to add version numbers to patch > > files, for this very reason. We should perhaps note this on: > > > > http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HowToContribute > > > > I am a Jira administrator and would be happy to change the default > > ordering of attachments if it were possible, however I can see no option > > to do so. > > > > Doug > > >
