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 <[email protected]> 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 > <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 is no longer valid. :) >>> >>> >> >
