Perfect. This is what I need to know instead of patching 'in the dark'. Good thing SVN revision cuts across all files like a tag.
Thanks Mike! Michael cambridgemike wrote: > > You can see what revision the patch was written for at the top of the > patch, > it will look like this: > > Index: org/apache/solr/handler/MoreLikeThisHandler.java > =================================================================== > --- org/apache/solr/handler/MoreLikeThisHandler.java (revision 772437) > +++ org/apache/solr/handler/MoreLikeThisHandler.java (working copy) > > now check out revision 772437 using the --revision switch in svn, patch > away, and then svn up to make sure everything merges cleanly. This is a > good guide to follow as well: > http://www.mail-archive.com/solr-user@lucene.apache.org/msg10189.html > > cheers, > -mike > > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:55 PM, michael8 <mich...@saracatech.com> wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> First I like to pardon my novice question on patching solr (1.4). What I >> like to know is, given a patch, like the one for collapse field, how >> would >> one go about knowing what solr source that patch is meant for since this >> is >> a source level patch? Wouldn't the exact versions of a set of java files >> to >> be patched critical for the patch to work properly? >> >> So far what I have done is to pull the latest collapse field patch down >> from >> http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-236 (field-collapse-5.patch), >> and >> then svn up the latest trunk from >> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/solr/trunk/, then patch and build. >> Intuitively I was thinking I should be doing svn up to a specific >> revision/tag instead of just latest. So far everything seems fine, but I >> just want to make sure I'm doing the right thing and not just being >> lucky. >> >> Thanks, >> Michael >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://old.nabble.com/apply-a-patch-on-solr-tp26157827p26157827.html >> Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/apply-a-patch-on-solr-tp26157827p26189573.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
