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The following page has been changed by LohitVijayarenu: http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HowToCommit ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Changes to website (''via svn up'') might take upto an hour to be reflected on hadoop site. + == Backporting commits to previous branches == + + If a patch needs to be backported to previous branches, follow these steps. + 1. Commit the changes to trunk and note down the revision number, say 4001. (Revision number is displayed as response to your ''svn commit'' command). + 2. Check out the desired branch and execute this command from the root directory. {{{ + svn merge -r 4000:4001 https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/core/trunk . + svn commit + }}} + == Dialog == Committers should hang out in the #hadoop room on irc.freenode.net for real-time discussions. However any substantive discussion (as with any off-list project-related discussion) should be re-iterated in Jira or on the developer list.
