Perhaps a script is due that creates the patch file with -exactly- the right name. Something like what HBase has as dev-support/make_patch.sh perhaps?
On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 10:30 PM, Allen Wittenauer <a...@altiscale.com> wrote: > > Oh, this is also in the release notes, but one can use a git reference # > as well. :) (with kudos to OOM for the idea.) > > On Apr 22, 2015, at 8:57 PM, Allen Wittenauer <a...@altiscale.com> wrote: > > > > > More than likely. It probably needs more testing (esp under Jenkins). > > > > It should be noted that the code in test-patch.sh has lots of problems > with branch-0, minor, and micro releases. But for major releases, it seems > to work well for me. :) > > > > On Apr 22, 2015, at 8:45 PM, Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli < > vino...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > > > >> Does this mean HADOOP-7435 is no longer needed / closeable as dup? > >> > >> Thanks > >> +Vinod > >> > >> On Apr 22, 2015, at 12:34 PM, Allen Wittenauer <a...@altiscale.com> > wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> Hey gang, > >>> > >>> Just so everyone is aware, if you are working on a patch for > either a feature branch or a major branch, if you name the patch with the > branch name following the spec in HowToContribute (and a few other ways… > test-patch tries to figure it out!), test-patch.sh *should* be switching > the repo over to that branch for testing. > >>> > >>> For example, naming a patch foo-branch-2.01.patch should get > tested on branch-2. Naming a patch foo-HDFS-7285.00.patch should get > tested on the HDFS-7285 branch. > >>> > >>> This hopefully means that there should really be no more ‘blind’ > +1’s to patches that go to branches. The “we only test against trunk” > argument is no longer valid. :) > >>> > >>> > >> > > > > -- Best regards / Met vriendelijke groeten, Niels Basjes