Can I ask, though that we do add branch information in the patches. Too often a patch is intended to apply to some branch other then trunk, and there is no easy way to tell what branch it was intended for.
--Bobby Evans On 9/9/11 10:52 AM, "Mattmann, Chris A (388J)" <chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote: Wow, I didn't know that! Learn something new everyday, thanks guys. Cheers, Chris On Sep 9, 2011, at 9:48 AM, Doug Cutting 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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: chris.a.mattm...@nasa.gov WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
