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
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