On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 7:05 AM, Carol Frampton <[email protected]> wrote:
> Good morning, > > Ever time I go to apply a patch to take a look at the code, it has failed > for various reasons. I took a quick look at our website and I didn't see > anywhere obvious where we document how to generate a patch to attach to a > JIRA bug. Did I overlook it? If so, we need to make it more obvious. If > we haven't documented it we need to do that. > > I would suggest on the Source Code page we might want to nicely state that > only commitors can commit to SVN, otherwise a patch needs to be added to a > JIRA bug and then explain how to generate the patch. They should be > created with svn and generated from root. > > Carol > I am wondering if you are applying the patch in a wrong manner? ;-) For me (I use TortoiseSVN on Windows), no matter where in the hierarchy I try to apply the patch, I get notified that there is a better path to apply the patch - if there is one. I just accept the path that TortoiseSVN proposes and the patch is applied fine. What tools do you use and what kind of failures are you seeing? Thanks, Om
