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How to Contribute to Apache Hive

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This page describes the mechanics of how to contribute software to Apache Hive. For ideas about what you might contribute, please see open tickets in Jira.

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This will report all modifications done on Hive sources on your local disk and save them into the HIVE-1234.1.patch.txt file. Read the patch file. Make sure it includes ONLY the modifications required to fix a single issue.

If you are using Git instead of Subversion, it's important that you generate your patch using the following command:

Code Block
git diff --no-prefix <commit> > HIVE-1234.1.patch.txt

Please do not:

• reformat code unrelated to the bug being fixed: formatting changes should be separate patches/commits.
• comment out code that is now obsolete: just remove it.
• insert comments around each change, marking the change: folks can use subversion to figure out what's changed and by whom.
• make things public which are not required by end users.

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