Thanks for your help Russ. Turns out that the last .diff fitted in to the version of django I had so there is no need to add to the ticket. If anyone else is looking to take the big int patch its very simple.
Cheers again Russ and to everyone who contributed to the ticket... very helpful Brian On Jun 7, 3:06 pm, "Russell Keith-Magee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/7/07, brian corrigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hey all, > > > I am looking to take in the patches for ticket #399 (BigInt field). I > > am not sure how to do this though. There is an original patch.txt > > followed by a couple of .diff files. Are the .diff files the > > difference between the original source and the latest update to the > > patch or are they the .diff since the last patch? > > Depends on who made the patch. However, generally speaking, each patch > will be self contained, unless otherwise noted in the ticket comments. > > > Also the original patch is from 2 years ago and a lot has changed > > since then so I'm a little confused as to how I would go about taking > > in this patch. > > Unless the area of code affected by the patch hasn't changed much > (which isn't very likely), the diff won't apply cleanly, so you'll > need to port the patch. Look at what code is being added by the patch, > try to find the analogous code in the current trunk, and manually > insert the code from the patch into your copy of the trunk code. > > When you're done, don't forget to take a new diff and upload it to the > ticket so that others can share in your efforts. > > Yours, > Russ Magee %-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
